The Cheat, if there are no fish in the aquarium then you dont need to cure the
LR separately, it will just ride along with the tank as it cycles.
As with me i have fish already in my tank and I am currently "curing" the
LR before i add it to my tank. This is the procedure I used and am using.
1) went and bought a 16 gallon rubbermaid tub.
2) Put tub in my middle bathroom (it was out of the way and easy to empty water out when needed.
3) Got about 20 lbs live rock from my
LFS
4) put rocks in tub and added half fresh mixed saltwater and half salt water form my tank that it is going into.
5) 24 hours later check for ammonia and nitrites, if 0 then you should be ok to add to tank.
6) My ammonia and nitrites in the tub spiked off the scale soo, every other day now i take out half the water in the tub and replace with an equal amount of water from my aquarium.
7) on the days i dont do water change then i test for ammonia and nitrite. They are slowly going down (it has been a week).
8) once the ammonia and nitrites have dropped to 0 then i stop water changes and continue to test every other day, once a week has past and still no ammonia and nitrites then they will be added to my tank with some base rock.
wew alot of typing, hope that helps.
Dave