Clarification on Curing & Cycling

With our saltwater staging setup in place, we now have ~80g heated (~75F), mixed (to 1.024sg) and ready to go. We are picking up our Bali LR from the LFS tomorrow!

So, if the LFS tells us the LR is not cured, we will just go through the curing process ourselves. However, if they do say it has been cured, after we place it in our tank can we bypass the curing process and simply proceed with cycling? We're confused because, as was mentioned in another thread of ours, there is going to be some more die-off anyway from transport. Should we go through the curing process again?

We're thinking that as soon as LR enters the tank cycling commences...regardless of whether LR is cured or uncured. So cycling and curing occur simultaneously...and the water changes during curing just prolong the time needed to cycle. Generally during curing you keep lights off and do extensive water changes. Whereas normally during cycling you could run the lights and would not do any water changes until after both ammonia and nitrite have spiked and zeroed and nitrate begins to rise.

Does this sound right? Do we know what we are talking about?? What steps should we take tomorrow if we bring home "cured" LR to address any additional die-off?

Please help, thanks!
Amanda & Matthew

 

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