The parasites in the planted tank seem to be gone - but I dosed again just to be sure. The antibiotic food treatment for the other tank will take a lot longer to show results, I suspect. Ironically, removing the largest of the subdominant male acei from the cichlid tank seems to have reduced aggression quite a bit - and my one female is holding again after quite a long time without breeding. I'm a little worried that I may have some parasites in the cichlid tank as well, from the behavior of one of the cherry red zebras; I'll be keeping a close watch on them try to figure out exactly what's distressing the one that's keeping her fins clamped.
Finally, a pic of the cichlids without that ridiculous purple light (properly disposed of at the county dump's HHW recycling facility):
The holding female acei is the purple-with-yellow-fins fish low in the foreground - she seems most comfortable in that spot, which is odd for a holding female. Perhaps all the better hiding spots are taken! The red fish are not quite so red in person, but otherwise the colors are fairly true. All the fish in this tank but the bristlenose pleco are visible in the photo.
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