Need help identifying disease and treatment

[4FordFamily]

Ideally yes

In regards to the Freshwater Dip; I'm using RODI water. I need to up the pH to 8.4 correct?

 

[xionggotstyle]

Going to QT all my remaining fish. Im going to Freshwater dip them then throw them into the QT tank. I had one quick question. Do you think adding a HOB power filter with UV will help with the healing and QT Process?

Also going to Treat the QT tank with Quick Cure which has formalin and malachet green; then add Copper too it. Sound like a good Plan?

 

[melypr1985]

Going to QT all my remaining fish. Im going to Freshwater dip them then throw them into the QT tank. I had one quick question. Do you think adding a HOB power filter with UV will help with the healing and QT Process?

Also going to Treat the QT tank with Quick Cure which has formalin and malachet green; then add Copper too it. Sound like a good Plan?

Don't add copper to Quick cure. I would suggest using quick cure in a dip and not in the QT. If you want to use it, then go from freshwater dip to Quick Cure dip to QT. If you want to use in the QT, then you'll need to do a large water change and run carbon before adding copper to the tank.

A powerfilter is absolutely recommended as is a small powerhead or air stone to add oxygen to the water. The UV might aid you a bit, but won't make much of a difference.

 

[mcarroll]

I have no idea what's causing these fishes to die. It doesn't look like velvet or ich. I thought it was Brooklynella but it doesn't really look like a either because the fish are all dying by days apart and not all the fish are affected I'll post some pictures.

Using an inexpensive jeweler's loupe or microscope to help in the ID would have been useful...but there are only one or two folks on here I can remember going to that level for their fish.

In the future, you might try running a search on the forum back over @Paul B's posts or shooting him a PM. Can't recall off-hand who else.

Also, these things usually come up for fish because of a compromised immune system. Hippo's are always the first to display signs of stress (and of course then infection), but the stress has to be beyond a certain level for the whole tank to tip toward infection.

Before restoring any (or many) fish to the display, you should take measures to resolve whatever stressors were around to degrade the situation in the first place. This could be everything from belligerent tankmakes, to crowded conditions, to poor system temperature control, to poor nutrition – they all add up.

Consider giving this a read:
Stress - Its Role in Fish Disease

That last one (nutrition) is usually a biggie....without excellent nutrition, a fish with a thin slime coat like the Hippo tank stands poor odds of ever getting healthy.

Live foods and whole-frozen sea foods are really best, but what do you have available and what have you been feeding so far? Dry foods should be supplemented/soaked with a high quality fish oil just like you take.