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Well, just for an update, the little guy is doing great! He's started swimming way more smoothly and has even began to grow again. Im not sure what happened, but I have certainly learned my lesson when using chemicals with these scaleless guys. Thanks for all the advice and help everyone.

Other than the Rid Ich (which we no longer use) we only used aquarium salt, API water conditioner an when needed, melafix. No other fish or dojos have any issues. I wish I could get a video of him swimming.

His tank mates are mollies, danios, black skirt tetras, a dwarf pleco, one angel fish who is very dossile, and sword tails. None of the fish in my aquarium are very aggressive. The tetras dart at food, but that is at the top and I feed my dojo sink in food. I don't really think they would have cause...

I know this probably sounds crazy, but I think one of my Dojos have been paralyzed during an ich treatment. We got an outbreak of Ich in our 55gal tank. I did some research and found a product that claims to be safe on scale less fish (Kordon Rid Ich Plus). We got rid of the Ich fairly easily, howev...