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So I had purchased a full grown boesemani rainbow from my LFS a couple of weeks ago. The fish looked fine in the store but when I got him home his scales looked as if they were pealing a little bit. Unfortunately I do not have the space to setup a quarantine tank so I put him in my 90 gallon. Anytime I introduce new fish I always turn on my UV Sterilizer and run it 24/7 for at least 1 week. If everyone looks healthy i then turn it off. Well the boesemani died 3 days later and when I scooped him out of the water he had this white cloud around him. A couple of the fish had been picking at him by the time I got home from work. I noticed the next day that one of my SAE's and one of my female boesemani's had this same white look around their mouths that the boesemani that died had on his scales. It has now been a little over a week and the flaky skin seems to be spreading more around their mouths. I also noticed that a couple of my neons and red tetras all of a sudden had ice. I've turned the heat up to 85 degrees and still have the UV running 24 hours per day. Any ideas what's going on and what to do to cure them? (not the ick, I can handle that one)