TeeVee, in my humble opinion you don't even need 50lbs of live rock, as long as you give the tank/rock time to seed. You could do well with 20 LBS of live rock as long as it has good coraline algae growth, get your Ca/alk levels set and bust up (almost powder) some of that coraline algae and it will start to grow quickly.
What really worked for me was to dose a bit of the SeaChem Calcium one week and dose Kent the other week.... The SeaChem is Calcium Gluconate which is labeled as a carbohydrate but Kent says it is a sugar... isn't a carbohydrate a complex sugar?? anyway, the coraline aglae really seemed to take off in my tank and most of my base rock has coraline algae on it. I also have a few nice growths of calcerous red algae....
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