Some Sort of Algae?

Nanorock1970

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Started seeing this only a few places in my tank, now it is just about everywhere on my live rock.
I have Dwarf Ceriths, Nassarius vibex , Florida Ceriths, Antillean Nerite, Tongan Nassarius,Trochus snails, and two red hermit crabs.
I had Aptasia anemones when I first got my rock but my peppermint shrimp seamed to clear them out (during one of my nitrate spikes, he didn't make it)

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Pest or no pest.....What is the remedy should it be a pest?
 

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Look like some type of foraminiferans

Edit: Not a pest. Usually nonharmful and don't interfere with too much as they typically grow on dark sides of live rock.
 

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Can you take a clearer picture with the white light on only? I think it might be a type of algae, I want to say I had it growing in one of my chambers but my snails and hermits devoured it.
 
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They do sway with the current...they are white in color and so far do not seem to get very big at the moment but I feel like they are spreading around my tank.
 

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