Okay, one last word....
Im sorry but i dont think there is anything i can do. I have dont waterchanges and dosed meds 3 times each 2 days apart. I have increased the heat to about 83 (still increasing to treat ich). I have tried feeding everything i own. I have no access to live food, and even if i did i have heard that those also bring parasites and desieses. I will does the meds again tonight. I dont really care how my fish got this parasite anymore, i just want it gone and i have followed all the instructions i have been given (except live food, which again, i have no access to). I dont want to sound ungrateful, but if there was something i felt i could do right now, i would have done it. I would do 500 waterchanges if thats what it took, but that wont solve anything. If i had high nitrates or something there would be something that i could do, but i cant.
Honestly, thank you all for helping me. I truly appreciate it!
Okay then. There's really not much more you can do except wait. That being said, We need to clear up a few things once and for all. Anything I repeat from an earlier post is not by accident
#1- You need a larger heater. It shouldn't take your heater more than a couple of hours to raise the temps 4 degrees. If yours can't do that, it's too small for YOUR living conditions. Just because it's rated for up to a 40 gal tank doesn't mean that it can handle a 40 in all conditions. Just something to think about replacing.
#2- Frequent water changes are sometimes necessary when you have a system that is out of whack. Being willing to do those 500 water changes is a good thing. Needing to do 500 water changes to fix a problem is a bad thing. I hope you can see the difference.
#3- Live food: Yes, there is a minimal risk of bringing in a disease with live food but you need to understand the basics. In nature, fish living in ideal conditions don't usually succumb to the diseases they pick up in their natural food. In the case of parasites, most often the parasite moves from host to host or leaves the host at some point to reproduce. Strong fish can carry the parasites and deal with them. Stress makes the disease or parasite better able to attack the host. Ich is also more of a sympton than a disease. Healthy fish in a healthy system rarely come down with ich. In your case, you had multiple fish showing stress in different forms making one believe that the problem is the tank more than the disease.
#3A- Diseases from live food: As I said earlier, there is a minimal chance of a disease being transferred through live food. In the case of Live Brine Shrimp, this is a saltwater creature which would only carry a saltwater disease. As explained to me years ago, once in freshwater, the osmotic pressure difference between saltwater and freshwater would make any parasites attached to a brine shrimp burst thereby making it harmless. (This is the reason we give FW baths to saltwater fish effected by external parasites as a means to eradicate the problem.) So you shouldn't hesitate about feeding live brine to your freshwater fish. Just let them sit in Freshwater a few minutes prior to feeding to eliminate any potential problems. So the rule to remember:Foods raised in freshwater can pass things to freshwater fish, Foods raised in saltwater can't pass things to freshwater fish. The same rule applies to marine fish. They can't catch a freshwater disease from food raised in freshwater.
Finally, if you don"t have access to live brine, try frozen brine. The whole object it to get the fish to see something natural and see if it will eat it. Flakes and freezedried foods don't always cut it. Brine shrimp is my choice because it works somewhat like a laxetive which from the sounds of it, is what your fish needs. The living shrimp would be a moving target and hopefully rekindle that natural instinct to eat a moving object.
So other than that, you're just going to have to wait it out. Keep the system as healthy as possible and hope for the best.
Keep us posted