Algae ID on snail

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What is this algae on my snail? Before you say it’s cyano, it doesn’t come off when I squirt water at it.
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Can you get a better picture? It's hard to see exactly what you're asking about. It looks to me like some coraline algae as well some red wire algae (Gelidiopsis spp.).
 

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