Is this Dino’s

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Complete reef noob so this is my first outbreak of something. I thought it was GHA at first because I started seeing small patches of what I’m sure was GHA on my sand and wave pumps. I got that cleaned up and this started appearing all over my rocks. Nitrates has bottomed out but phosphates hanging around 0.05 to 0.08. So I started dosing Neo Nitro but that isn’t doing anything. All the pictures of Dino’s online show bubbles at the tips and I’m not seeing any of that. Now all my corals seem to be ticked off and I’m sure my Chicago Sunburst BTA is going to die. Fish seem fine though. I’m adding a gallon of copepods today, thanks Dinkins. I’m also dosing Microbacter Clean. Any and all advice appreciated.

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May we please get an image under white lighting. Looks like it might be a red turf.
 
Still looking for a diagnosis of what’s in my tank so I can treat appropriately
 
Where did you get that rock?
What cuc members do you have?
That's not Dino.
 
Where did you get that rock?
What cuc members do you have?
That's not Dino.
Was a brand new Marco Rock when I put it in the tank. The whole tank is Marco rock with TBS rubble in the fuge.

I have dozen Cerith Snails, 5 trochus snails, 5 turbo snails, and 3 hermit crabs from TBS rubble rock. Im expecting 10 Astrea snails, 5 Trochus snails, and a Tuxedo urchin tomorrow. This was ordered a couple weeks ago when I thought I had a GHA problem. I know this is light for 180 gallon display but I only had two clowns for a bio load.

Didn't look like dinos to me either but having never seen them in person I wasn't sure.
 

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