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I think 88F will be fine for the treatment period. The swordtails and plecos might be the most uncomfortable, but it won't kill them. I believe ich dies off above 87F. You'll need to keep it up long enough to cover all the ich lifecycles.

I have to agree. I had a few once. I though they were adorable. They do bother fish a bit (though not purposely); I watched a planaria worm swept into the current of my filter and into the face of my goldfish. The goldfish then proceded to scrape against decor to get the little bugger off its face.

The inch per gallon rule is a little outdated. There is now specific formula that covers all species together. Its a little odd to think a 10" fish would do fine in a 10 gallon tank. It would touch both ends without much swimming. However, five 2" tetras wouldn't be all you could put in that...

Sounds great. My water is off the charts worse than yours is and I've successfully kept goldfish, tetras, livebearers, African cichlids, loaches, otos. As long as it's stable over time. Even discus can live in such conditions if they are raised in them. An lfs near me has the same water...

All time favorite couldn't live without: Common goldfish (short tail) Favorite I have no room for currently: Midas cichlid

Maybe the conditions just aren't right for breeding. As you said, the last batch of eggs produced no fry. And lets face it, ornamental bettas haven't been bred for fighting in how many hundreds of generations? They aren't always as aggressive as they are made out to be. Even fighting plakats...

I don't maintain a specific QT/hospital tank. I use a bucket. Any antibiotics you use would kill off the cycle. I find a bucket much easier, and its less likely I'm going to get the urge to stock a sad looking empty bucket as I would a tank.

I just purchased a male and two female jewels today to go in my 30 gallon that used to house my green sunfish. I'm wondering about what size they start breeding. They are currently about 1.5" each. The male is quite the territorial little thing, I like his spark.

Maybe a smaller cichlid, or a gourami.

I have several dozen trumpet and ramshorn snails in my 30 gallon tank. When I started this tank they were a mixture of beautiful golden browns. Now they are white, like calcium white. I have very hard water, more so than what my test kit could measure. I also have driftwood in the tank. No algae...

They are virtually the same thing, but the goldfish flake has less protein content.

Sunfish, especially pumpkinseeds, will wipe out an mts population overnight. Unfortunately. I love my mts and can't seem to get their population to explode. I overfeed and overfeed. But you can't go around adding fish to an established tank can you. I suggest the old trap and remove method as well.