3 gal pico nano reef

[Detroit Giant Bettas]

Just starting a saltwater project i've been thinking about for a while. There was a store near where i used to live in Sterling Heights somewhere around M-59/ old Van Dyke that had this little tiny tank, with some coral an live rock, but mainly it was just a host anemone and a clown fish that would just sit in it. I wanted to build that tank, unfortunately the tank they sold me was simply not capable of that and it didn't work out.


The other day, I traded a guy for a 3-gallon pico tank that he had set up for salt/reef. It's heated, got a much bigger filter on it than what i came with, and a pretty good light. I took it over to Tropicorium, told them my plans and they helped me re-set it up. fresh live sand, rubble for the filter, sponge, live rock, water and some chromis to get the cycle started.

Now i've kind of done this before, and am no stranger to aquariums, but i'm still a bit out of my element. So anything that you know that may help me along the way to my goal would be appreciated.

also feeding tips would help too. Not sure what to feed what i have now, but here's a list of equipment i have laying around:
Seatest specific gravity gauge
40lb bag of solar salt
API Freshwater master test kit
extra heaters and air pumps of various sizes
brine shrimp eggs/ hatcheries
Ocean Nutrition brine shrimp plus flake food
tetra veggie sinking wafers
new life spectrum betta pellets
Hikari fancy guppy mini pellets (this is what i'm mostly feeding the chromis right now, they seem to like them)
frozen bloodworms
frozen glassworms
frozen daphnia
Prime water conditioner
Stress coat
De-chlor dechlorinator
Jungle clean water clarifier
Algae destroyer

Thanks in advance.