What's the best thing to do about this algae?

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I was trying to do purely coral in this tank, but after dealing with my black hair algae with Chaeto in the sump, now I've got this green hair algae attaching almost exclusively to my frags:

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What would be the best way to deal with this algae? There isn't a ton of it, so I'm not sure it would be enough of a food source for something else long-term. It's a 75g tank, which is very much wasted right now on these two frags, but I wanted to make sure I could take good care of them before expanding -- it's lessons like this that are keeping me from going to far too fast.

Thanks!

(They are normally much more open and happy than that, they're just very closed up right now because I was brushing at them trying to manually get the algae off.)
 
If there isn't a ton, try manual removing and doing some strong water changes (over 50%) to hopefully keep in check.

You could also try getting a lawnmower blenny if your bio load permits to help further keep this in check.
 

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