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Either works.....
1. If you cure your rock in the garage in a vat, there will be tons of die off in the vats, a ton of ammonia created, and this ammonia will fuel a growth in nitrogen cycle bacteria that will live in/on the rock.
2. You can put the rock right into the tank, let the die off occur there, and then this case, everything that happened in step one in the vat, now happens in your tank
So if you do step one, you might leave the rock out there two weeks. Then when you bring it inside into the tank, you might have continued cycling from further die off, or you might introduce some food to decay and make ammonia, or add ammonia directly to continue the creation of beneficial bacteria. This might take 2-3 more weeks.
So... do 1 and 2, maybe takes 5 weeks, 2 in vat, 3 in tank
Do only 2, it takes 5 weeks since you will have many weeks of die off in the tank, and you'll need to sit around waiting for a large amount of ammonia to be converted in the tank.
So... same diff. As Mcgyvr mentioned, most live rock you buy at stores does not have a crap ton of stuff to die off, so you often don't need to do the vat, hoping to avoid a stinky house. So just start in the tank. Think 3-5 weeks.
BOTTOM LINE... you have a bunch of stuff to die off, make ammonia and other organics, will need a bunch of time for bacteria to convert ammonia/nitrites to nitrate. Pay me now or pay me later.
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