Cycling with uncured live rock

[Quincy]

I placed 158lbs of relatively clean uncured Fijio rock in my 100 gallon reef tank 15 days ago. Amonia and Nitrite is zero and Nitrate is 180ppm. The PH is 7.8
I am not running any lights and have done no water changes.

Is this process going the way it should be going? Is there anything else I should be doing?

Thanks

 

[jezzeaepi]

Time to start doing water changes then. Looks like its going well. Youll want to do a few large water changes, then recheck the water after a week and see where the phopsphates(which I notice you are not testing for yet) and nitrates read. Youll want them both to be 0. Its just basically a waiting game coupled with lots of water changes.

PEace and GL

 

[Scooterman]

I had some LR that was almost dead, I let it go a while like two months before I considered adding anything to it, even though I could of gone less time. Now over a year later, it is just starting to show up real life. BTW, I ran lights etc like normal, I did wait a while before changing out water, Nitrite 180, I'd probably let it go a little longer before changing water but a small change may help, it will bounce up & down while changing water though, so expect it.

 

[Quincy]

The LFS says to not start water changes until the tank is further along the cycling process. Phosphates are 0.

Thoughts?

 

[Scooterman]

It won't hurt to wait it out a couple more weeks, then start doing your changes, I didn't change water at all for two/three months but I wasn't in a hurry to cycle the tank either.