Need Help w/ ID / treatment brown algae

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Hello all,
I’ve recently setup the tank of my dreams in my home 2 months ago. This past week, I noticed i’ve accumulated a brown algae that has taken over my whole aquarium. I just ordered a microscope to see what it really is up close, but was wondering if anyone could ID it, or give the best treatment plan for it.

Tank info:
-Red Sea reefer 850 g2+ (225g total volume)
-3 Red Sea 160 LED’s set at 30% blue and 10% white 8am-5pm
-2 reef wave 45 gyres set at 50% random flow
Premium grade
-Carib sea premium grade arag alive sand
-2 clownfish 1 fairy wrasse, one sand eating goby / six like wrasse / one tang
-5 turbo snails 10 astrea snails
-couple hammer corals. ( I just put in coral 1 week before the algae grew)
-supplied freshwater ATO / water changes with BRS 6 stage RO Unit

Chemistry:
Phosphate .05
Nitrate 2ppm
PH 8.2
Calcium 450
Mag 1400
Alk 8.0
Salinity 1.025

I’ve used:
-Dr Tim’s live nitrifying bacteria to cycle
-Introduced coraline algae from bottle
-I feed mysis 1/4 cube everyday to my fish.
-4 bottles of copepods
Does anyone have any experience beating this or know what it is off the top of their heads?

(I kept whites on only for pictures but they are normal 30% blue 10% white 8am-5pm IMG_5047.jpeg IMG_5051.jpeg
 
Be patient Keep your phosphate and nitrate stable regularly clean you mechanical filtration plus a addition of small clean up crew and pods/phyto will help you through it
Thanks I’m trying to be patient. I know the ugly stage would come but I thought it wouldn’t be as bad with everything I’ve prepared haha.
 

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