Need Help ASAP on mixed CA/SA tank

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CornBread

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I have a 55 gallon with 5-2 in oscars, 1-7in oscar, 2-2in midas, 1 female convict, 2-5 in gold fish and a dragon goby.

Had to move them in this tank cause my 190 busted on me so no its not on purpose. But the problem is that a couple of the 2 in oscars looked like they started getting ick so when I did the water change tonight at about 8pm I raised the temp up to 85 but it was already at 80 which i slowly raised over the last 4 days. But just now at 10:40pm I checked on them and the temp and a few of them were floating like for air or relief so please someone or everyone tell me what to do right now on forward please.

Already I have unplugged the heaters and dropped a handful of ice cubes in the tank to drop the temp and I have one light one for them to give them life so that hopefully they will keep on moving instead of floating. I have a huge air stone in the tank with a big pump pushing it. I have 2 filters on it, emperior 400 and a aquatech 30-60, but what make this bad is that the tank has only been running since the downfall of the big one. Need help.
 
Ammonia and nitrate levels are...?
 
good luck, test the water, doesnt sound good
 
Probably be a good idea to test. You sat the 55g has just been set up. Are the filters newly set up or are they cycled filters from the larger tank?
 
No new filters with the filter media from old tank but not alot because filters ran dry for a minute before i transferred them to the new ones had to take care of the fish first
 
Well looks like it may have just been the high temps.
 
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