Here are some things to minimize food for your algae.
Monitor your temperatures. You want very little swing.
Ask your self how long it has been since you changed bulbs.
Feed your animals only what they eat.
Cycle your photo period with timer.
Do a proper water change with filtered water with low TDS (Total Disolved Solids). You mix your salt externally in bucket and let it aireate to allow PH to come up matching your tank temperature before adding.
Any change you make too fast can create waste. I am saying that if you add too much light at once for example. You coraline algae can die off creating waste.
Ok, here are some tools you can use to fight Algae.
You could add Algae to your refugeum. Algae competes for territory. This was introduced to by Bob Fenner as method of controlling algae.
You could use Charcoal. One pound for every 50 gallons of water and rotate it out when Ph drops.
You could use Rowaphos or Warner Marine Phosphate remover media to remove Phosphates.
Phosphates are food source for algae.
You could introduce Ozone or a UV sterilizer to kill single cell algae as it passes through system.
Make sure your Protien skimmer is dialed in for your system.
Clean your prefilter boxes, overflows, sump to remove build up of waste.
Keep things suspended in water column so filters work properly with good water flow.
Keep PH and again Temperature as stable as possible.
Do not allow fast salinity swings. If your salinity is off your calcium, Alk, Mag is not properly mixed. This may cause more die off of algae good and bad.
these are things that I look for off the top of my head.
Wow, Like Kris just said. Two weeks in you are going to have a lot of cycling for first two months. So patience is very important. I jumped the gun on you thinking it was after 8 weeks.
