My battle with red algae

[cesar333]

Just wanted to say hello to everyone since this is my first post. Im sure this forum will be very informative. Now on to the questions.

I have had my 75gallon established for alittle over a year now. It has a 16gallon sump, 2 48" t5 light strips 10k each and a 48" fluorescent light strip with super daylight K6500 bulbs. It has mainly been pretty good except for a red algea problem. This algae has been growing in the tank since about the first 2 months and is running wild. I has attached itself to pretty much everything. It doesnt. Now on the bright side, i am convinced it has kept all of my water params, down and has probably encouraged the good coralline growth. I have introduced a cole tang and a fox face along with my 2 clowns and goby. I was hoping my foxface would find a liking to it but iv seen him nip at it once, but he seems to like the fishfood more. What can i do to remedy this problem? here are a few pics.
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[QuagmireMan]

I had a flourcent light that made algea go crazy, then after replacing the bulbs it slowed down incredibly. Also there is got to be something feeding it, so as everyone says "Try not to overfeed"

what are your nitrate, nitrite, and amonnia levels?

[BadRoma1]

m yellow tang would love it. it's prety, i wuldn't get rid of it

[Riverserver]

I think it looks pretty cool too, a lot better than the green waving crap everyone tends to get ;)

Hopefully you can find something to eat it.

[clown-lover]

Thats what I was going to say River... It looks really cool to me, I'd just find a fishie or two that will eat it so it doesn't completely run you over.

[Riverserver]

You might check into a different spectrum, most people use a 6500K on a refugium to promote algae growth.

[SHK_ATK]

isnt that cyano? kole tangs are usually good at eating all kinds of nuissance algae