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UPADATE! My fish is now doing worse, swimming up, very stressed struggling to stay afloat doesn't seem interested in eating. When I first saw something was wrong it was 10/5/16 and pH was 7.0 and KH was zero. I've been doing alot of water changes since then, and yesterday the filter broke and...

https://photos.google.com/share/AF1QipN-8UOhWd82Faf0jGB3WzCzjk1aS2q69nBgFiltEdZNvHiAV4J3vdWFNJDBZMTGEg?key=YjZYRVo3N2pjSGw2NS16eExyb0JfSkFqUnlPYXN3 Link to a video of the fish. Maybe this will help identify what's wrong.

I tested the tap water and it's pH is 7.5. The pH in the tank is low because of the driftwood in it. The fish grew up with the driftwood in there so removing it would seriously stress the fish out and cause another drastic shift in the pH.

I tried the pea/fasting method, and my fish ate the pea, but he's still struggling and just seems to be getting worse. It's definitely not dropsy but I'm not sure what's wrong

I'll try this with my tap water, but what can I do to help my shocked fish?

I have a cherry barb in a 20 gallon tank who is beating his front fins frantically and swimming upward in order to stay up, otherwise he sinks to the bottom. It seems like his swim bladder isn't working and he can't "float" in the water like before. I've had cherry barbs die of this in the past...

Ok, nitrates are down now (around 10 mg/l), bu they were high in the past. I think the fish are still in shock, they aren't eating. 

Ph is 6.8, KH is 40,GH is 200, Nitrite is 0.2, Nitrate is 10 mg/L.

Most of the dead fish appear to have died of drospy, or have no signs of illness. The "Ich" is white dots that eat away the fins, white clouding over the eyes, and even large white patches on the head. Ill fish gasp at the surface, slowly loose the ability to swim and stay near the bottom, then...

My fish are dieing at a rapid rate. Some of them have Ich, but the ones who die don't show sights of it. They are all gasping at the surface or swimming irregularly. I did a 65% water change, but two fish have died since then. Should I add in the Ich cure? Keep doing water changes? What can I do...

Fish now have Ich. 6 fish died today, one after the water change. Most of them had no sighs of Ich. I did a 65% water change. Nirites are 0-.05. Should I add Ich medication or wait for bio filler to grow back?

I added allot of treatments because my fish also had the red gill disease (which I'm sure is from how overcrowded they are), and I thought the swimming upward disease was swim batter disorder. None of them really helped the fish. The young fish that was swimming upward died today, and I think...

 One of my older barbs appeared to catch this disease, but really I think she got Dropsy instead. She died and on the day that I added broad spectrum bacteria antibiotics to the tank I noticed another one of my fish got Dropsy. She died within 3 days. The one young fish still has the swimming...

I tested for Nitrites with API test strips and there are 0. Nitrates where high, but I brought them down with water changes. Every week I do a 10%-20% percent water change (thought I did 5% for a few weeks and that's why the nitrates where up.)

 One day I noticed that one of my older cherry barbs was swimming upward, like he was struggling to stay afloat. I thought it was swim bladder disorder, and I did everything I could, but he died, I think from exhaustion. Then two of my younger barbs stared swimming like they were struggling up...