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I've had a major over haul of this tank in the last month. This 55 gal. tank is a couple of years old. We moved a couple of miles across town the 1st of August. At that time it was mainly large aggressive fish. I also had a smaller tank (29 gal) which consisted of Goldie (the vieltail), some platys and mollies, that developed a leak during the move process so we put all of the fish together. Needless to say the mollies became fish food for the Oscar and the platys died. I had most of them about 3 years and they were ready to go on to the big fish tank in the sky anyway but Goldie was fine I thought. I started noticing that he was getting beat up (scales were coming off) by the semi aggressive fish that I had in there and I decided that I would rather have Goldie than the bigger one's. So I traded the bigger one's for some baby parrot Chiclids (I had a couple of them before the move that died the first week at the new place. We're thinking water quality? because they had no symptoms of being sick before) I use a Rena Xp filter system and I'm sure we took too much water out for the move. Anyway I thought I had the tank stabalized when I put the new one's in and they seem to be doing fine (I've had them about a week now).

 

Goldie is the only one that seems to be infected. As far as how many, besides Goldie there are the 3 parrot chiclids, 2 small cory catfish, 1 new small black moore, 1 old peacock chiclid that has never displayed much color. Explaining all this to you I think I solved my own problem. There have been too many changes in the last month. He's probably stressed out. I won't make any more changes to the tank but I don't want to lose Goldie. Do I need to put him in a separate tank to medicate. I've been doing some reading on the web tonight and I put 4-5 tablespoons of aquarium salt in the tank. I always use stress coat when I do a water change and I also use water conditioner because I use tap water.