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I know I already posted this but no one has helped me and I need help. Long story short I have a 45 gallon angelfish tank that had some ich with salt and it has been 1 week since the last siting of ich and everyone was looking good so I wanted to add some new tetras, while there was still salt in the water. So I added 6 black phantom and 4 black neons. I got home from the lfs and put the new fish in one of those plastic breeders, and I noticed shortly after that one of my angels was stuck to the filter, so I took him off and he was still alive but couldn't swim straight he would be tilted to the side and try swimming but he would end upside upside down or on his side. Eventually after I put him in another breeder he died. Then yesterday I noticed 2 of my new tetras were doing the same thing, then this morning they were dead and 4 more tetra are doing the same thing. They swim upside down/on their side still breathing but can't move and eventually they die. My water is good: ph: between 7.3 and 7.6. Nitrite 0, ammonia 0, and nitrates are impossible to tell because my nitrate test thing for some reason doesnt work, but 3 weeks ago when I had it tested the nitrates were 30. Please help me.

Thanks
 
water changes. do a decent size water change and next time, even if theres an urge to buy new fish, after an outbreak or a close with anything don't add anything new for longer than a week. you need to let the tank get back on its feet after treating the ich.
 
and you need to quarantine your fish. with most lfs all of the tanks run off of a single filtration system and when one tank gets ick they all do. quarantine all of the fish from that lfs.
 
I am almost positive it isn't ich, I said that the tank hasn't had ich in it for at least a weak, I brought it up because of the fact that there is still salt in the water. Even if it was ich, I have never seen ich mess with a fish so that it stays alive but swims upside down for hours then dies, and it wouldn't have hit so fast to new fish, and an older fish. I know have 3 more tetras doing it. I am doing a water change right now, but I don't know what else to do. What could be causing this, I read about swimbladder issues so it could be a parasite or bacterial infection but how do I know. Please help me
 
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