Well, I'm pretty sure I've got dinoflagellates in my tank and that's what's killed off all my clean up crew.
I've been really slacking in my maintenance this summer, putting off water changes, not basting the rocks, etc, etc etc.
I really want to get it all cleaned up and gone before I transfer everything into the upgrade tank. I have been battling an algae I still haven't identified for a while now too, it might also be a result of my poor husbandry. It's really dark, almost black, short and fuzzy. So, I'm going to try several things:
1) On Aug 1st I started vodka dosing. I figure I'm around 150 gallons of net water volume so I started with .6 ml and did that for the first 3 days. Yesterday I dosed 1.2 ml, did that again today and will do it tomorrow then up it to 1.7 ml for a week.
2) I'm giving the tank my undivided attention today, (well other than painting the stand for the upgrade tank). I've pulled my GFO off line, going to change the carbon in the carbon reactor and will change it on a weekly or every 10 days or so.
3) Doing a water change tonight (have to wait until my water warms up a bit) and will do religious water changes every 2 weeks for the next couple months.
4) I'll be wiping my glass and basting my rocks every day.
5) I'll also be turning up the flow on the MP-40's and possibly adding one of the WP-40's in the 77 and putting a WP-25 in the cube. Obviously my flow isn't enough or my rock work is such that I'm getting dead spots.
6) I'm going to try and get in there with a toothbrush and scrub as much of the black algae of my rocks that I can and filter as much of the crud out of the water column as possible.
If there's anything else anyone can recommend doing to help get rid of these dino's I'd be very grateful