Ick!

I've had fish for like 4 years now. They are just gold fish but they have lived forever. My neices named them Turtle and Fin. While I have been off doing my adventures in Hawaii and Switzerland my dad has become rather close to these fish. He thinks he has trained them even. Sean got 2 more gold fish about a year ago from some carnival or something so we just put them all together in a rather small tank. They've lived like that for awhile now but just recently my dad bought a big tank and a bunch of stuff to go in it and put them all downstairs in the kitchen. Now the large tank looked kind of strange with just 4 little gold fish swimming around in it so my parents bought 2 more fish from Walmart about 2 weeks ago. The fish all seemed fine together and everything was great until the fish started turning red. I guess this in one of the signs of Ick, a fish disease. So we did all we could to clean out the tank and give them medicine but it's not helping. We've lost 2 fish already and 3 more are on the way. It's such a weird thing looking at death. I know that sounds stupid but we literally go and watch the fish as they slowly die. We know there is nothing we can do for them so we just have to wait. It's weird how it draws you in. It makes me really sad actually because I'm an animal lover and hate to see any animals suffer but you just can't look away. Everytime I come into the house I go check to see if anymore are dead. What is sad is that the fish from Walmart, the ones we think brought the Ick into the tank are doing fine and have nothing wrong with them. One of the other ones literally looks like it's growing fur on it. It's crazy. So we don't expect any of them to last to much longer and dad says that when they all die he's taking the fish tank to DI and we're not having anymore fish. That's what he says, but I know he'll get more fish and the cycle of life will go on. But it's amazing to see these fishes will to survive. They are literally laying on the bottom of the tank just breathing in and out. So it's a sad state in our house right now. Death is looming.