Media now, its where the bacteria will colonize. Now i would hold off on the ammonia. Give it a few days and test your water. The rock should start the cycle
If the tank has fish make sure there healthy. The rock can transfer nasty stuff from the tank. Ideally live rock is kept in a tank by itself. Some do keep fish in there too tho.
Oh cool. This is my first one. I moved all my fish out of my "qt" and into the big tank finally. It left the black clown alone. So i wanted to add a few tank mates. I got the card and a gramma.
Hmm. How do you tell the sex's apart? I only got 1 bc the place i got them from only keeps them singly. So far very happy with it tho. Eats like a pig lol
The cloud will clear lol. It can take some time but it will happen. The cycle is a different story. No real time frame bc each tank is different. I do it the same as you and quills tho. Live rock and a small amount of food to ghost feed. Now depending how fast you want it to cycle, the more...
All depends on you. A reef will need better lights then fowlr. If you want to get set up for a reef down the road alot of folks are using leds now. I use orbit marine pro lights