Orange slime algae won't go away

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Hi all!

I've been struggling with a terrible algae problem (looks way worse in person) my parameters are as follows

Salinity 1.026
Nitrate 5
Phosphate 0
Alk 9
Magnesium 1410
Calcium 410

The tank has been around for around 6 months.

I have had cyano in the past and this is different I did a 3 day black out that barely helped, chemiclean didn't help, what are my next options? This stuff is burn orange and isn't dinos. It periodically covers my corals and is killing my sps and zoas

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Hard to say without a microscope I'd. Could be diatoms. How's your source water? RO/DI? Filters new?
 
Rodi from LFS!
 
Do diatoms clump up and flow with the current?
 

WHAT KIND OF SUBSTRATE ARE YOU RUNNING ON YOUR TANK?

  • Bare bottom

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  • A shallow bed of fine sand

    Votes: 7 25.0%
  • A shallow bed of coarser sand

    Votes: 6 21.4%
  • A deep sand bed

    Votes: 3 10.7%
  • Mixed substrate or varying sand depth

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  • Some other substrate (posted in the comments)

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  • I don’t have a reef tank yet

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