Those are fair questions. you can’t leave your expiry date open though
make it specific
do skip cycles expire @ 4 mos then?
this thread isn’t when skip cycle began, I made all my reefs that way since 2001, on every forum
but that is this threads age, so, Im kicking up a few entrants to see if they made years. Takes a sec to get respondents
Again, the OP wasn't asking about a skip cycle, they asked about using dry rock, bottled bacteria, and immediately adding fish. That is not a skip cycle. In your response, you stated that there was no concern for harm caused by ammonia. This was after several people stated to cycle the tank first and that they wouldn't trust the bottled bacteria to do the job since there are instances of those bottles not always working. The only thing I am disagreeing with you on is saying that there is no concern for harming the fish if the OP uses this method. I would like to see the scientific proof of that. I don't think that random threads on R2R constitute scientific proof. There needs to be a process and the scientific method must be followed IMO.