No idea how to get rid of this lettuce algae that’s randomly growing on my frag racks and on different frag plugs.

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Title. This annoying ugly lettuce algae seems to only grow on my frag racks and frags plugs on the rack...

I weekly remove the algae manually but it’s getting annoying.....

not sure what else I can do

my nitrates last night we’re at 2 and phosphates at 0.25. I’ve been trying to drop it down to 0 for about a month now

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I have manually removed as mach as I can. Then used an exacto knife to scrap the base of the algae area. Rinse the frag in clean saltwater and returned to the tank.
 
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I have manually removed as mach as I can. Then used an exacto knife to scrap the base of the algae area. Rinse the frag in clean saltwater and returned to the tank.
I just did that lol. But the dang thing still grows back
 

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When you remove it manually drip a little h2o2 on to the area, you should see it bubbling as it dies. This should help it not come back after removal
 

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Maybe after removing it try rubbing some hydrogen peroxide on the spot where it was with a q tip? One of my frags had this and I just pulled it off and it never came back (possible because the zoas grew over where it was).
 

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