[GSAS-Member] Help? Yellow lab babies? Ich?

["Holly" <holly@ourglasshouse.com>]

Ben and I moved just over a week ago.  We set the 38g community tank up the
same as it was before.  To try to save space at our new location we did the
taboo and combined our 4 Labidochromis caeruleus with our 3 angelfish.  The
labs were in a 29g and now all are in a 20g hex.  I had never done anything
to alter the pH in either tank so both had the same water quality and had
been doing well for a year and a half this way.  
 
A week after the move my angels were suddenly looking bad.  They had what
looked like a red vein going from the dorsal fin to the caudal fin.  There
was and is also redness where the pectoral fins attach.  (The labs were
starting to breath heavier but were otherwise normal.)  Since my test kits
were old I threw them all out before the move.  I was going to buy new ones
in September.  So I could only assume what's going on with the water.  I
guessed that despite my care with the media a mini cycle was taking place.
A 50% water change seemed to help a lot.  But now 1 angel has some ich on
his face.
 
On the contrary, apparently the labs really liked this change because
they've become far more outgoing than they were alone in the 29g with only a
small pleco as a tankmate.  Then this morning I saw the dominant male
following the largest female all around the tank, periodically
shaking/spasm-ing.  An hour or two later I checked and I am 99% certain the
female has a mouthful of eggs.  Daddy has been working construction and made
a nice hole under the bogwood by moving the flourite around.  He makes sure
everybody else stays away from said hole.
 
So my first question is, what is my best option to treat the ich?  My second
question is, what is the best thing to do for the new mommy?  I'd like to
avoid medication.  I turned the temperature up from 78 to 80 degrees.  I
have a 15g long, 2 10g's, and the 29g that I could set up.  They're not
cycled so I'd maybe want to purchase some Biospira.  Should I move Mom? Mom
and dad?  Will she drop her eggs if I move her?  Should I move everybody but
the 1 angel?  Gah, I was so excited but now there's drama in fishytown.  The
only other tankmates are a bristlenose pleco and another small variety of
pleco who's species has slipped my mind.  Then there is a second, smaller
male lab, and one teeny tiny female.  Any help would be greatly appreciated.
 
 
Holly ~
 
 
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