Live Rock Cured?

So I'm thinking my live rock may finally be cured, but I'd like to get some opinions from others who have cured rock outside of their dt before. It's been curing for about 3 weeks now, and has never really had any ammonia spikes, I bought it from a store, and immediately put it in water, so it was only dry for maybe 30 minutes at most. I haven't rechecked ammonia since last week, but I'll do that soon. I didn't have a phosphate kit for the first two weeks of it curing, but I got one on Sunday and it read about 2, I just rechecked that again today and it's reading the same. Does this sound cured?

 

When you cure rock.. there is usually an ammonia spike and it could turn into nitrite and nitrate.... also check for those too...
Have you been using RO/or RODI water? Dont use tap water and condition that.... because if contains unwanted chemicals or minerals that promote high phosphate...

if all three ammonia, nitrite and nitrate are good then... should be good to go...

I'd also use seachem stability (or beneficial bacteria) too assist with the start up....

Do you have any marine pure (bio blocks/balls) in your tank... hopefully you should have these to help the start up.

 

I never use tap water for anything, at this point everything looks great, I'm more worried about phosphates leaching but they don't appear to be any more, there was never any die off, so ammonia never spiked.

 

When you cure rock.. there is usually an ammonia spike and it could turn into nitrite and nitrate.... also check for those too...
Have you been using RO/or RODI water? Dont use tap water and condition that.... because if contains unwanted chemicals or minerals that promote high phosphate...

if all three ammonia, nitrite and nitrate are good then... should be good to go...

I'd also use seachem stability (or beneficial bacteria) too assist with the start up....

Do you have any marine pure (bio blocks/balls) in your tank... hopefully you should have these to help the start up.

Sorry, maybe my original post didn't state everything clearly, my bad, I should've added a few things. This isn't a new tank, it's an upgrade from a 40 gallon tank, it's now about 70 gallons and I needed more rock for it, everything in it was from a tank that was established for over a year. I've only ever cured rock in a tank as basically the way to cycle the tank (not a fan of bottled bacteria and additives) this rock is just curing in a bucket before I put it into my dt, I'm assuming it's never going to "cycle" as there was no die off, I'm just mainly trying to get an idea of what other people's readings looked like when they cured rock outside of the dt and when they considered it "safe" to be added in.

 

yeh if you want to cure it in a bucket.. I wouldnt trust that if will be safe to go back into your main tank...esp when the est live rock in your DT has already been done....
If you trust all test parameters are good to go.....I'm assuming it should be fine... my worry is the spike once you put it in the main tank... will it crash? I'm pretty sure it won't be that bad... esp when you have a 70 gal. You can easily do a water change

 

yeh if you want to cure it in a bucket.. I wouldnt trust that if will be safe to go back into your main tank...esp when the est live rock in your DT has already been done....
If you trust all test parameters are good to go.....I'm assuming it should be fine... my worry is the spike once you put it in the main tank... will it crash? I'm pretty sure it won't be that bad... esp when you have a 70 gal. You can easily do a water change

It's been curing for about 3 weeks already, you cure new rock before adding it to a display tank so all the levels spike in the bucket to avoid a crash in the main tank, if live rock is cured correctly nothing should really spike once its added to the main tank, so it shouldn't crash, and my tank already has inhabitants (fish and coral) that I've had for a while now, so that's why I'm trying to see if anyone is experienced in curing rock similar to how mine is curing, and if they are familiar with what the levels should look like once it's done curing.