Algae in new SPS tank

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Anyone have any idea how to get rid of this algae? It has consumed most of my rock work and back of my 225. Its pretty unsightly and i dont want it to start to effect SPS growth and coraline algae growth. Here are a couple pics.

So far i have started running GFO and a pellet reactor has been up and running from the start of my tank 4 months ago. I am not sure if this is just part of normal tank maturity or not. When i test for phosphates I get zero, mostly likely because the algae that is present is already consuming the phosphates. I started off pretty slow with the GFO for the fact that i know it can cause ALK swings and burn tips of SPS. Besides these two things any other ideas?
 

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Its pretty normal for a new tank to get some hair algae, get some turbo snails and keep doing what your doing.
 
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