update, good and bad news.

thanks for the advice before, and happy thanksgiving!
today the ich is 100 percent gone, but I'm still going to do the treatment for a couple more days just in case. the fin rot does not seem to be getting any worse at all.

i have some more good, and bad news.

the good news. i put my sick dwarf platy in a breeder trap without the divider, because my oldest baby guppy was picking on him, and i made sure he got extra food. he seems to be stronger, but is still floating at the top, and he isn't floating on his side anymore.i had a almost-one-month baby guppy floating at the top too this morning, he was so dark in color compared to the other 19, so i put him in with the platy, and now he is acting perfectly normal, but he is still very dark, so i put him back with the other babies and i let the platy out into the main tank because i have a female who is going to give birth anytime now and I'd like to save the babies.
the bad news...yesterday night i found two babies dead in my tank, so i separated the other 20 into a isolation net. ive been watching them all day, and everyone seemed to be acting normal. within ten minutes of the last check, i looked in the net and there was a dead baby, and it wasnt the sick one.
so now i have lost 3 babies. one baby did have fin rot, but the other two looked perfectly normal, but when the died they were with adult fish, so maybe they were stressed?
do you have any idea what could be causing these deaths?
and do you have any idea why the one baby guppy is so dark in color?

also, i have a golden mystery snail, and i was wondering if the aquarium salt would affect him???

also, the picture is of the sick platy.

thanks soooo much for taking your time to help me, i can't tell you how much i appreciate it!

Just netting a fish will put stress on them, especially if they're already sick. Rather than adding salt, I would be doing partial water changes. Some plants, both rooted and floating, will provide refuge for the sick fish.

PS: I'm happy we could help. Unfortunately it seems like not all of your fish will survive. I still think you should focus on maintenance issues and pass up the medications. Once all the fish are well and the aquarium is clean, you can do some research about restocking the tank. I may not have mentioned before that some activated charcoal filters can remove medications from aquarium water. All of my aquariums have simple under gravel filters, and they very rarely get medicated so charcoal is an issue i didn't think about.

Good luck, and please keep in touch.

Netting is very stressful for fish.

I'm not sure that I understand what you're saying either... Do you have one tank? And are suspending the sick fish in a net in that tank?

One of the best things a fish keeper can have on hand is an extra tank, a hospital tank. This is a separate tank, that you an fill partially with water from the main tank, and partially with good clean fresh declorinated water.

Keeping a sick fish in the same tank... that's not isolating it. That's not protecting the other fish.

Unfortunately, you may loose more fish. Or, you may not. Fish are funny sometimes, but my advice, water changes are your friend. You can't do them too frequently. You could do like 20% a day and that wouldn't hurt at all... Even a little more. And hospital tanks are priceless in the time of an emergency.

Good Luck with your fish and keep us posted.