Help me to ID this algae please!

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Could someone please help me to identify this nuisance algae in my tank?

Tank age - 9 months, 140g
Salinity - 34.5 ppt
Ammonia - 0
Nitrite - 0
Nitrate - >10
Phosphate - 0.04

Just need to know what I'm battling here - if I scrub it off and siphon most of it out, quite a bit of it is back the very next day. It's growing without the lights on, because a bunch of it rebounded overnight before the lights switched back on. Thanks!!

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Cheers, thanks. I suppose thats better than bryopsis. I was hoping to use fluco to kill it off, but am I better off with vibrant or something else?

Recently added GFO and am now starting manual removal.
 
Hair,algae..Mexican Turbo Snails..took care of it in a week. Just need to make sure you have other algae to eat or you can give them back to LFS
 
Hair that can be removed quickly if you act now.
Pull off as much as you can by hand. Reduce white light intensity a little.
Add the following snails so you have 4-6 of each: Turbo, astrea, trochus and even a few maragarita. Also about 8-10 blue leg hermits.
Other option is use of liquid vibrant which works Very well.
 

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