What is this stuff on my glass?

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Tank is a couple months old, nothing new added. Parameters are fine, and only new addition in the last couple weeks is adding a power head. We woke up this morning and noticed this on all sides of the tank and nothing we can think of comes up in a search. We’re still pretty knew to the weird wonders of salt water, I thought maybe part of the “ugly phase” but our other aquarium did not experience this.

stock contents:
1 blue chromis
1 Diamond goby
1 striped dottyback

1 pulsating Xenia
1 Kenya tree
1 zoas
1 hammer

No hitch hikers were found after adding any corals and no other oddities in the tank.
Thank you for any help in advance!

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Some sort of biofilm, bacteria, algae build up. I get this also. Scrape it off with the magnet cleaner and make sure to change your filter socks a few hours later or they’ll get clogged.
 

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