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I am currently having a bad outbreak of the brown algae as well. I bought 3 Siamese Algae eaters and they took care of the existing algae in a matter of days.
When my tank was just two months old, brown algae covered everything. I was just diligent in wiping the glass regularly (easily came off) and after a few weeks it didn't appear again.