everything died, will I go through a cycle?

[davidl]

Everything , short of a few hardy snails, died in my tank during last month's wind storms. I am slowly building it all back up and water conditions look ok, but I guess my question is since the tank has been all but empty for the last 3 weeks while I cleaned out all the dead stuff, will I see a cycle again when I add fish and some live rock?
The tank is 55g using a ETSS reef devil skimmer

I nice side affect was that all the algea is gone and my rocks look clean again..:badgrin:

-David

Calrification:

when I said empty I meant empty of livestock, not water. I did a 50% water change a few times to get the water parameters back in line.
not sure if that makes a difference in everyone's opinion, but reading my post it wasn't very clear

 

[mmkeeper]

The cycle starts all over again.

 

[Krish]

I agree...If you are basically starting from scratch then there's really no way around it. Good luck and sorry to hear about your losses

 

[matts125]

look at the bright side, your not the only one!
many people here lost many thousands of dollars worth of livestock due to the power outages..


Matt

 

[class clown]

At least it sounds like you have a nice skimmer to help with the cycle. I've heard good things about those and on a 55 gallon, it's probably more than enough. sorry for the loss btw..