All the types of algae I keep in my algae tank

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A flaky kind that kills zoas

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A bushy kind

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A green slimy kind (hard to make out)

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A red slimy kind

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A red hairy kind

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ID on any of these would be appreciated. I've been battling crazy phosphate (dropping to 0.02 with treatment, shooting back to 0.4 within 24 hours) and Nitrate (swinging between 5 and 25 at random). Dosing nopox with a doser, was using GFO but graduated to just using phosphat-e as needed. Reefmat, skimmer in working order. 135 gallon system. Corals and fish dont seem to care about any of it, other than some dimming colors with high phosphate and brightening when it lowers. I will take literally any advice at this point lol. I've got my zoas and mushrooms in petri dishes so i can scoot them around and turn the sand. I started blowing off the rocks regularly earlier this week.

I'm not in trouble yet, but will be soon.
 

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