Appears to be algae?

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Hello i have a 40 gallon breeder tank with a 20 gallon sump approximatly 50 gallons total water volume, i use rodi water with tropic marin salt, at about .24-.25 salinity i do water changes about twice a month usually 10 gallons a water change i have a fleece roller, skimmer, return pump and a ato in the sump in the tank i only have 1 wave maker i run my lights about 10 hrs a day I don't have a par meter so I don't know what my par is, i have 2 clowns, fire fish, diamond goby, cleaner shrimp, banded coral shrimp, turbo snail a few hermit crabs, a few nassarius snails, pulsing xenia, and a black widow anemone, i feed i pinch of seachem nutri diet marine flakes not too much or I feed 1 cube of frozen hikair mysis shrimp once every other day, ( not both at the same time I mix it up here and there) the parameters seem to be fine in the tank, I'm having what looks like algae on the rocks but it mostly concentrates on one rock the other rocks are pretty clean, idk if im just being impatient and it needs to cycle more or if there is a problem,can somebody help me figure out what my problem may be? The tank is only about 9 months cycled I just find it weird that it's mostly attracted to that one rock. Thanks in advance also if you could help me ID the lil snail in the last picture I would be greatful thankyou

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If the algae is focused on one rock I would imagine it is the rock that has the least flow, algae likes low flow area's.

You can also load up on more clean up crew, get some more algae grazing snails in there.

Overall it looks very clean for a 9 month old tank, in fact I would say "too clean".
 
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Thanks for the info all I did since 2 weeks ago was clean the front and side glass its been 2 weeks since i did a water change, the diamond goby does a great job on the sand bed, i forgot to mention i have 2 Emerald crabs none of my fish or inverts seem to want to eat it, is there a certain fish or invert in specific you would recommend to help? Also would it hurt if i was to remove the rock and put it in a bucket of saltwater and scrub it with a scrub brush or somethin? do you know what kind of algae this is? And do you recommend i get more flow? I only have 1 power head, it is pointed in the front probably level with that rock with algae if i bring it any lower it seems to blow sand around , I have 3 or 4 inches of clearance in the back of the tank behind the rock
 
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Hello i have a 40 gallon breeder tank with a 20 gallon sump approximatly 50 gallons total water volume, i use rodi water with tropic marin salt, at about .24-.25 salinity i do water changes about twice a month usually 10 gallons a water change i have a fleece roller, skimmer, return pump and a ato in the sump in the tank i only have 1 wave maker i run my lights about 10 hrs a day I don't have a par meter so I don't know what my par is, i have 2 clowns, fire fish, diamond goby, cleaner shrimp, banded coral shrimp, turbo snail a few hermit crabs, a few nassarius snails, pulsing xenia, and a black widow anemone, i feed i pinch of seachem nutri diet marine flakes not too much or I feed 1 cube of frozen hikair mysis shrimp once every other day, ( not both at the same time I mix it up here and there) the parameters seem to be fine in the tank, I'm having what looks like algae on the rocks but it mostly concentrates on one rock the other rocks are pretty clean, idk if im just being impatient and it needs to cycle more or if there is a problem,can somebody help me figure out what my problem may be? The tank is only about 9 months cycled I just find it weird that it's mostly attracted to that one rock. Thanks in advance also if you could help me ID the lil snail in the last picture I would be greatful thankyou

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