Green and Brown Algae aggravating my frags

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The brown stuff on my hammer has this thing so closed up now, should I dip it? What is this stuff?

Most of the tank is dealing with a green looking hair algae.

Parameters:
Nitrates 10-20
Phosphate .04-.06
Alk 9
Salinity 35
Temp 78

Up until this morning my phosphates had been dead solid at .16. Couldnt get it down no matter what I did. Finally installed GFO and overnight my phosphates dropped. I run 2 media reactors back to back (GFO to Carbon) and back into the tank via a sea swirl. I dose NoPox and Phyto. I dose All for Reef with my Alkatronic. Guess I can stop NoPox now that my phosphates and nitrates are better.

Anyways it’s a 50 gallon RedSea e-170 AIO. It’s a bare bottom tank. I run a CO2 scrubber off my skimmer in the back of the tank so my ph averages around a 8.0.

What else can be done to get rid of this algae, these frags aren’t looking good. Maybe more snails? I feed HPD once daily so I am no where near over feeding but I still can’t get rid of this algae. I am starting to see signs of coralline growing.

Do I just need to relax and wait it out or actively go after something. Hoping my reduced phosphates will finally help with some of this.

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The brown is prob cyano bacteria. It does not like high flow. You can wipe it off or siphon it out.

Maybe a clean up crew with a few urchins and a conch for the green stuff?
 

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I have some like the photo at the bottom that has overtaken a couple of green star polyp colonies. I haven’t seen it on anything else but it’s frustrating.
I would also be interested in knowing what it is.
We are about to buy some clean up crew, so it would be nice to know who to get.
 

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