Icemom
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Hi. I have been battling some infection / parasites for a while now in my cichlid tank. It's a 75 gal MalawI tank, I hve aceis, labs and rusties. It started with what looked like ich, so I treated with super ich cure, that didn't work, changed to rid ich plus, then , then course of erythromycin. I continued to have issues, like sores and spots, lost some stock. My last three week treatment was with sulfaplex, and finally it seemed like it cleared up. Now, a week later, I see spots on them again, jst a couple. And my aceI has a sore on his side, started as a scale lifted up, now clearly a sore. Took carbon out again, and went with melafix . I have ammonia spike after sulfaplex, went to 4ppm, I put a fake plant from my other tank to reseed the bb, and with some water changes it went down to 1 ppm. Nitrites are 0, nitrates 10ppm, ph 8.0. I'm at the end of my rope with this. Although it appears different this time, before they would stop eating, have breathing issues, hung head up in the corner, get bullied and beaten up (not in plain view, but the results looked like it, they would end up with huge patches of missing and sores) . What am I missing? What should I do? Right now I have one aceI with some white spot at the base of the pectoral fin,one aceI with sore on his side,and since I'm really jaded by all he fish losses and illness, I question every tiny mark on them. Also, I see one that's resting too much and keeping away from others, worry about him too. And I netted one with the sore last night and gave him a 1% salt bath, he stayed there for 1 hour. He's not worse today, for sure, maybe some improvement, maybe not. They are eating fine, btw. Thank you