Hello

Hello. I found this website when reading my tfh magazine. I never really thought much of it since I used to only do fresh water stuff but now that I went to the darkside and set up my first salt tank I figured I would join. Why not, it's in Iowa haha. Umm, a little about me. My name is Jim, I am 24 years of age, have kept fish for a few years, bred many, member of a few fish clubs around the Iowa area. I got tired of fresh water, I still have 4 tanks that are fresh but I decided to turn my 55g into a fowlr, I know this is a reef forum but I want to start slow, I plan to have a nice reef one day. I joined because I really want to learn without being chastised like a few other forums like to do. I am a noob at this and have noob questions even though I read up allot so bear with me haha.
I have one main question and I have no idea where to put it so might as well put it in my introductory . I have had my 55 set up for approximately a month  now. I only have 20 lbs of live rock for now (it gets expensive) but I plan to have about 60 lbs total over time. I am picking up my skimmer tomorrow. (it will be a hob since I do not have a sump, nor have the stand for a sump) In my tank I have a purple dottyback, 2 blue/green chromis, 2 blue legged hermits, a nassarius snail, 1 turbo snail, and a goby/pistol shrimp combo. Everything has been doing amazing, eating very well and very active. But the past few days I have had a crazy algae bloom and I honestly do not know what to do with it. I was wondering if I should add a hob filter with a filter pad to help sift out some debris in the water or what. Just some quick advice would be amazing /DesktopModules/ActiveForums/themes/_default/emoticons/smile.gif. Thank you ahead of time for even looking at my post.
Here is a shoddy picture of my tank in progress.

 

Forgot to add that my 2 hob filters contain rubble of live rock.

 

Thanks all for the warm welcome.

Substrate is aragonite.
I cycled it for a week with the bottle of instant cycle stuff (forgot the name, it's in a purple bottle though) then I added in my 2 chromis
Tank has been up for approx 3.5 weeks.

I have been asking around to a few local stores as well and they just suggest more turbo snails so I guess that is what I will be picking up this weekend.

p.s. I just picked up a protein skimmer so that is out of the way.