Brown film on glass

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Soo my tank has been up since early December. And the last 4 days I have this brown/ powder algae on my glass.. I clean it and it will literally be back in an hour, it’s crazy. Should I be concerned. There is no algae really anywhere else.. have a little patch of gha but not much and has been there for awhile..
Tank is at
Nitrates- between 5-15
Phosphate around 0.08
Alk at 9

Started dosing live phyto... maybe I went over bored
 
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Sounds like diatoms. Has your lighting schedule changed ? They will pass with times. Do you have a decent cuc ?
Yea funny u say that, I raised the whites on a part of my schedule a week before this started.. yea I got snails, conch, algae blenny
 

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Surface algae with diatoms that is light deficient. Simply use either a magic eraser (original - not scented) or magnetic scraper to remove.
Also add a few astrea, turbo and cerith snails.

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