Salt water is not hard at all, same tank and filter, you would just need a bag of marine salt and a hydrometer. Set it up with some crushed coral on the bottom and fake plastic plants, Use a hang on the back power filter and put a heater in it. Thats all you need. Cycle the water with a few chunks of live rock and hermit crabs, later you can add small fish, clowns, demsels, psuedochromis, cardinals, blennies, gobies. Make sure you read up on the live stock before buying it.
Keep the salt level or spacific gravity at 1.0020-1.0025. Make a small water change every other week, add freshwater once a week, because when water evaporates salt stays in the tank and salt level raises. Thats where the hydrometer comes in, test it and adjust, just like sugar in a cup of tea.
Salt water is not as people make it sound. I started my first marine tank at the age of 14, it was a 29gallon fish only tank and i ended up keeping the same fish for years in that same tank.
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