Treating Ich In This Community Tank

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Hey guys, I know there's a lot of advice how to treat ich, but here is the situation, this afternoon I heard some banging noise in my aquarium, so I turned to the aquarium and noticed how my Red Line torpedo barb was swimming rapidly side to side banging the aquarium glass. If he wasn't a fish I would say rage disease, after 5-10 seconds of banging, he just floated to the top and turned upside-down. I knocked on a glass, no reaction, so I got bucket filled it up with aquarium water, put him in, he just turned pale after an hour.

So I began observing my fish closely and I have noticed white spots on some of the fish, google images let me conclude it's an ICH disease.

Cherry Bards - infected
Neon Tetras - infected
Black Neon tetras - infected

Black skirt tetras - no sign
Amano Shrimp - no sign
Bronze corys - no sign
Bristlenose - no sign
Raphael cat fish - strange behaviour - rage and he bumps on to the gravel ans rubs again the boogwood, no visual signs

Here's the situation, how do I treat this communal aquarium and what with, I would have to wait 2-5 days if I order some medication online (as the neares pet store is 12 milles away). If I treat them with salt, I have plants, shrimps and catfish. Do I remove the sick fish?
 
100L aquarium, has been running with all that fish for 2 months now with PH 7.2, ammonia - 0, Nitrite – 0, Nitrate 120 at 25C, but summer, temperatures rises to 28C during the day. Last time I have changed the water was last Sunday, where I did about 35% of water change.

Today in the morning I have discovered 3 black neon floaters, 1 on the bottom and 1 Cherry Barb on the bottom too. I have noticed white mark on black widow's nostrals too. What to do guys????????
 
100L aquarium, has been running with all that fish for 2 months now with PH 7.2, ammonia - 0, Nitrite – 0, Nitrate 120 at 25C, but summer, temperatures rises to 28C during the day. Last time I have changed the water was last Sunday, where I did about 35% of water change.

Today in the morning I have discovered 3 black neon floaters, 1 on the bottom and 1 Cherry Barb on the bottom too. I have noticed white mark on black widow's nostrals too. What to do guys????????

By 'floaters', you mean dead fish? The 'rage' could be irritation caused by the ich annoying the fish.
You have quite a mix of fish/shrimp there. I would recommend esHa 2000, I used it on some ich and it seemed to have worked ok. It doesn't seem to contain copper, but it does have malachite green. My bamboo shrimp survived, fish cleared up, loaches ok, but my sensitive plants took a hammering and lost most of their leaves. Took about 2 weeks of meds, lots of water changes, and raised water temp.
 

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