Info on corals?

The brown anemones you have are aiptasia, not something you want in your tank if your going to have corals, the red stuff in your tank is red slime ( a bacteria) usually an indicator that your tanks water conditions are not good or incorrect lighting. Looks like your filtration systems is an outside filter which I dont think is going to be adequate for your system , so would suggest more liverock, and get a protein skimmer. I would buy a test kit, API is cheap and would give you a start so you would know what your water conditions are. I also would not add any more fish till you get your water parameters , nitrate, nitrite, an ammonia correct. Once you get these taken care of then you might think about added some easy corals but I would not get in a big hurry to add coral till you get your tank running nice.

 

as far as the aptasia goes, when you start getting your clean up crew, crabs snails and such, get a couple pepermint shrimp, they love to eat them.

red algae, you may need to take the rocks out and put them in a rubbermaid tub with saltwater and scrub them down real good with a toothbrush. do not put that water into your tank.

filtration. i also use a hang on back filter for my 55 gal, as well as a hang on back skimmer. your live rock and skimmer will do most of your flitering but you need to make sure you have enough rock, about 1-1.5lbs per gallon of water.

fish do not need any lights at all, so whatever lights you get for your coral should work fine.

 

i have a reef octopus HoB skimmer, once you get it dialed in, it works wonders.

i think the best advice i have gotten so far since i started this hobby, about 2 months now. only bad things happen fast. so take your time, patience is truely one of the hardest things to master.

 

A Gramma isnt hardy enough to cycle at tank..

 

yah but still only 2 weeks into your cycle the gramma wouldn't stand up as well. as far as lighting with you just using your normal flourescent lighting that came with the tank i will say you will be hard pressed to grow very many soft coral. i ran that on my 55 when i first started and had a hard time with mushrooms even and they are a very forgiving coral, i would suggest doing T5 lighting from the get go, that will allow you to do all softies now and LPS later with some SPS. when you get more into it then you can go to more T5's or halides and a bigger tank. as far as a skimmer goes for yours. whoever told you a certain skimmer wouldn't work for coral is stupid. because a FO tank dont need a skimmer anyways as long as you have a good filter and do water changes, i ran my first 55g with no skimmer and barely did water changes, just used some random filters from walmart and never lost a fish. its the coral that need skimmer as they dont like the nutrients i the water that the skimmers remove.

check this out for a light for your tank, I'm assuming its 30"
http://www.marinedepot.com/AquaticLife_T5_HO_4_Lamp_Light_Fixtures_w_Lunar_LEDs_24_Inch_T5_Fluorescent_Light_Fixtures-AquaticLife-AK01035-FILTFIT54U-vi.html

and this for a skimmer
http://www.aquacave.com/reef-octopus-bh-100-br-hang-on-back-protein-skimmer-495.html

now you can prolly find them cheaper elsewhere but kinda gives you an idea what to look for

 

not really sure about that myself but here is the one i have and I love it.

http://www.reefspecialty.com/Protein-Skimmers-Octopus/c21_46/p318/Octopus-BH-1000-Hang-on-the-Back-Protein-Skimmer/product_info.html

 

power heads produce current, coral need them, some more then others, i know my little firefin loves to hang out in the water column and nab food out of it.
this thread on reefcentral is a pretty good primer.
http://reefcentral.com/forums/showthread.php?t=1696795