What is this algae

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So I have been battling algae and I keep getting this brown hair stuff on the tank. It grows very fast and is on the rocks sand and walls. Scrapes off very easy from the glass. I'm not sure what form of algae it is. I think the stuff on the rocks and sand is green hair but not sure. The tank is fallow for now so there is no feeding. Nitrates are zero and phosphate is .05.

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Unless you manually remove it, it will grow, die, release nutrients, grow, die etc,etc. I assume fallow in this case means no snails or fish.
 
I'm manually removing currently. I have added snails and craps. Does a cuc eat this stuff?
 
My removal method is scrubbing outside the tank with peroxide.
 

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