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Seems like my brown diatoms are starting to slow down, but now I have this... Looks like it's mostly on the older leaves of the micro sword, but I'm also seeing a little on my baby tears, the older parts that were grown out of water. What is it and what should I do? (Please and thank you😁)

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It looks like staghorn to me. 
I like to start with less light, try seven hours per day. If you don’t already have a clean up crew then look into some Amano Shrimp and Otocinclus. I’m not entirely sure they will eat this type of algae but it’s worth a try. I find that since the Microsword grows so slowly it can be an algae magnet if it gets to much light. In my tanks it seems to actually do better with a little shade. 
 

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