Help ID flat brown algae growing on rocks

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The rocks closest to my light are starting to get covered by what appear to be brown coralline algae. However I don't think it's coralline :(

It's very flat and comes in round circular patches of brown.

It's a 40 breeder mixed reef that has been set up for about 4 months. I tested my water and my ammonia and nitrate are zero. I perform a weekly 10% water change using RO/DI water. I have no other algae problems in my tank. My cleanup crew consists of 2 turbo snails, two astrea snails, a nerite snail, 3 scarlet reef hermits, two blue leg hermits, an emerald crab, and a tuxedo urchin. They keep my tank very clean except for this new algae. They don't seem to touch it. Any ideas what it is and what could eat it?

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It doesn't look like anything alarming. a good assortment of snails should clean that up. The light green coming in should be coralline. so it could be just another type of coralline
 

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