Green dust algae on glass and sand

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So my tank is 2months and 19 days old. Daily I come home from work and the glass and sand is covered with green dust algae. I can scrub it off with magnet and storing around sand. I have a bag of phosphate remover on my return pump. Skimmer is doing good. Only feeding 1/4 mysis cube at night for 6 fish. 60 gallon tank. Emperor 400 hob filter, sump with 4 layers filter floss, 5lb bag carbon, 5lb bag ceramic rings. I did 40% wc 2 weeks ago. Using rodi water and reef salt.
Cuc: 4 turbos, 3 tronchus, 1 blood shrimp
What do I need to do to stop this or assist in it?
 

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Film algae is normal on your glass. Algae on your sand is likely diatoms.

For the film on the glass, getting a good algae scraper like the flipper is the key.

The diatoms will likely go away on their own in a shortish amount of time.
 

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Our pincushion and trochus snails can assist in additional cleanup crew. Also turbo snails are great at cleaning the glass!
 

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