It was one year ago today that I added salt water to my tank. So far it has been pretty low on the drama scale.
This was a dry rock build, but I put a few pounds of biologically active rock from the LFS. No real problems with the ugly stage. I had a brief dyno issue about 3 months in, and have had a little cyano recently. Never anything that required more than mechanical removal combined with fixing some parameters.
Other than a GSP, I waited for about 6 months to add much in the way of coral. Most have done well.
Here is a short video clip of weekly FTS over the last year.