New to reefing.

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Patience, Patience, Patience.
The longer you let the new reef sort itself out the less manhandling it will need in the future.
I JUST finished cycling a month or so ago in one of my tanks and I was very tempted to try and speed things up by messing around with the different algae blooms and making it look nice and neat but I refrained and now the thing is crystal clear and all natural.

I DID siphon off any detritus and crap that was obviously crap during water changes and when I had a MONSTER cyano outbreak I siphoned off the stuff that was loose but other than that I completely left it to its own devices and monitered the changes in paramaters and what obvious (or not so obvious) effects those changes had in my tank.

Now I have an arsenal of knowledge specific to the microcosm I have created and one very clear, algae free reef. (anyone else find it ironic how close those two words are???free/reef).