New to saltwater

[J9000RAMS]

I'm starting up my first saltwater tank in a couple of days. I've being with freshwater for about 3 years and I'm finally making the big switch to saltwater. Going to purchase a 14-29 gal bio cube in a couple of days and was wondering if there's any other accessories I need to upgrade if I'm just doing a basic saltwater tank. Have live rock, 3-4 fish, and the cleaning crew(hermits, crab, snails)That's what I want to do and maybe do reefs later after I get the saltwater down pack.


If there's anything else I'm missing from what I should also know about starting up a saltwater feel free to tell me
Thanks

[Stickboy97]

To start out you need to cycle your tank before you add the clean up crew and fish. After that they make refugiums and skimmers for those bio cubes, both are a good idea.

[beaver-man]

i would go slow

wait a month before adding any livestock, and add them slow, like one thing at a time, because your biofilyrt eill have to work to keep up with the additional biomass

[BrAin]

what about auto top off? I didnt think the smaller tanks would evaporate as fast but that also means less room for error. We recently started a salt tank and adding water every day was very annoying.

[beaver-man]

ATO's really do add an easyness to reefkeeping if that makes sense

[Stickboy97]

My 75g with 20g long fuge loses about a gallon a day. My ATO made my life so much better.