Algae Outbreak - ID Please?

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I’ve been dealing with this algae bloom for the last 2 weeks or so. It is brownish-orange and relatively stringy. Seems to grow anywhere possible. What’s weird is it will only appear when the daylight leds are on. It seems to die off or completely disappear when they’re off. I did try to do some research and initially thought just a diatom bloom, however after reading about dinos I’m under the assumption this may be that. Feeding 1x daily where I rotate between frozen and pellets.

I perform weekly 15-20% WCs. Recently added polyfilter to the back chamber to help levels.

Water parameters as follows.
Nitrate 0ppm
Phosphate 0.2ppm (Hanna checker)

Any other levels needed tested?

Took a picture of algae as this is growth on newly added floss. What do you guys suggest I do?

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Can we see it in the display or on the coral?
Any carbon dosing or new food additions ?
 

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