anyone with a magic cure or answer?

[kwirky]

Originally Posted by Delphinus

Based on this description alone, without question, you had dinoflagellates.

I nearly tore down the tanks I had it in too when I was fighting it. It's demoralizing.

I think the problems I had can be largely attributed to buying livestock and rocks from people getting out of the hobby. I'm sure a fair portion of these people are getting out due to pests they were unable to control. Lesson learned I guess.