Lol I'm not making any friends am I. Damon has said the reasons why I would do saltwater first without doing freshwater. Except for the most costly and time comsuming bit, remember we are talking about a tank with LR, sofities and light! Basically all you would need to worry about is salinity, lighting levels and iodine to some extent. I don't think freshwater is a good learning step to get when you get saltwater coz almost everything is looked upon from a different perspective. New people to the hobby start of researching FW, so why can't they just reasearch SW in the first place and start there. As I said your typical newbie mistake wouldn't be too much of a problem in the tank described so I don't see why you would need a FW tank to make all your mistakes on. It's like walking from A to B to C if you only need to go from A to C.
I would think there would be just as many parameters needed watching in a planted tank than a simple fishless softie tank anyway? From the way I've seen them I'd rather run an SPS tank anyday before going planted.
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