WHAT TYPE OF ALGAE IS THIS

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What type of algae is this? I need to fix it.
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How old is your tank?
 
A little less than 4 months
 
You are going to have one ugly or another for several months. Cuc is a major benefit to speed those up
 
It could be diatoms but you’d need a microscope to know for sure. If so, they will go away with tank maturity.

Get enough diatom/algae eating CUC and do not keep the lights on too high and too long. Slowly but surely.
 
It could be diatoms but you’d need a microscope to know for sure. If so, they will go away with tank maturity.

Get enough diatom/algae eating CUC and do not keep the lights on too high and too long. Slowly but surely.
What is a CUC
 
This looks like wire algae which cleaners wont address. The rock will have to be placed in a container of tank water and scrubbed with a firm toothbrush or automotive detail brush and returned to tank and add chiton snails. large astrea snails, pitho crabs and ninja star snails for control.
 

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