New to hobby!! HELP ME

No sump and i have used a toothbrush trying to scrub it. I can get like the top layer off but then it really looks like bright glittery sparkling green. Theres red clumps in it to that are as hard as the rock and getting bigger like the size of a water bottle cap.
 
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I dunno how to really identifiy hard. I mean its like a thin layer over the rock. I can scrub away what seems to be a layer of it with a hard bristle toothbrush but the green doesn't come off.
 
Update on the tank! Lost my first fish :/ my vlamingii tang shot under a rock as i was rescaping and then i quarantined him to allow him to swim alone and heal up ( also avoiding chance of ick in display ). Then my halloween urchin stung him and he died and was completely black in less than a minute :-(.

Other than that updated tank pic and coral thats shown the most growth. My condy anemone is 10-12 inches fully open.
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Pleeeeeeeeeeeeease don't take this the wrong way as this is all meant to help...

Let me make sure I have everything right first. You have a 90 gallon tank right? Hang on the back filter? The tank is less than 3 months old? I noticed you first started posting and said that you had live rock on it's way via the mail. That means that after the rock arrived, with die off, your tank would then cycle. I also read that you are trying to scrub off coralline algae and didn't know what amphipods were. All that and I saw that you had a vlamingii tang die and I saw in a picture that you have a sailfin tang. By the way, how did an urchin kill a vlamingii tang in a qt anyway? An urchin shouldn't be in a qt tank if it was there to heal up...from the damage it received while you were aquascaping?

So here's the part where I don't want you to shoot me. My advice is to slow WAY down. You have fish that are not appropriate for your care level, OR your tank. There's many things to learn in this hobby and now that I'm back in it, I'm learning new stuff every day here on RC just by reading. Instead of spending your money on livestock, my advice is to spend it on better equipment, IE: a sump!, and just take it easy. Test out your parameters regularly and let your tank settle in. It's considered new up until a year from setup!

Maybe more can chime in, but I saw a lot of not so good things when I flipped through here.
 
The urchin is in qt because he just came in and i didn't want him in display yet. I have a 100 gallon 5 ft Fowlr 55 gallon reef and 90 gallon reef. The Vlamingii only died because he was put in the tank before i had aqua scape done in there and he literally swam right under a rock i dropped. I didnt know amphipods were as big as pencil erasers and i thought a bug had entered my tank. The coralline algae i was trying to get identified as for sure coralline because theres so much of it so soon. I have pink coralline all over rocks and especially on the glass now. All my tank parameters are fine i havent dosed anything in over 6 weeks and haven't seen 5+ nitrates in the same time. Why would i invest in anymore equipment when everything is thriving and levels are beyond reasonable?
 
Do you still only have the HOB filter? Do you have a skimmer yet? And regardless of equipment, test readings etc, the fish you mention or post in pictures are not suitable for that tank or for beginners.
 
Yes i have penguin 350 filter and aqua-c remora s protein skimmer. I clean both weekly and change the carbon filters when needed on the 350. The filter almost acts as a hob refugium for red graciliara and millions of pods
 
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