Is Brooklynella killing my Clownfishes?

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I've made the jump to saltwater three months ago through a 10G marine tank that now has some beginner soft corals and a few turbo snails for CUC. Before I added the corals, however, I had a pair of clownfish I obtained from my local LFS and acclimated them using drip that turned out to be wild-caught broke out into what I initially diagnosed as ich.

I quickly took them out of the DT into a hastily setup 10G QT where I dosed them with Cupramine at half the therapeutic levels only to die a day later.

The QT was sterilized with bleach, filled with dechlorinated water, then dried before filling it all up with saltwater again for two new clownfishes from a LFS selling captive-bred fish. They, too, broke out with the same disease that after research I concluded was Brooklynella.

As an emergency measure, I dosed the QT with acriflavine since I did not have Formalin in hand nor CP which I was going to obtain from my friend at 98.5% purity. Today, one of the clowns died after seemingly swimming around in the surface while the other has grown pale to the point of being translucent.

I no longer no what to do to prevent the other clown from dying. I will appreciate any assistance.

Thank you.

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When your first pair of clowns died, and you disinfected your qt did the new pair of clowns go into that cleaned qt or right into the display tank?
 

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