female black molly harrassing the male?

I have just set up my 37 gal aquarium and I regretably bought 2 black lyretail sailfin mollies from pet-co. Day 1 I bought the female, she seemed healthy but day 2 I started seeing some inactivity and sickness. Day 3 I bought a male and I started noticing some white stuff on the female and she doesn't seem to use her right fin as much, I'm assuming it's Ick. I used Ick treatment today and I've fed them 3 times today with a small ammount of food. The female with ick seems more healthy than the male and at feeding time attacks the male if he tries to eat, hogging all the food. now the sick female is "festively plump" and the male is normal size. Now the female is constantly harrassing the male. I'm beggining to the think that it's not Ick but a wierd strain of the RAGE virus and that I have a zombie fish.

I don't have pics but it appears to be a relatively large white spot above the right fin along with some very small whiteness on that fin and the dorsal fin. I recently raised the alkalinity from 7.0 to 8.6 in preparation for the African cichlids and she seems to act completely normal now. She is moving her right fin as normal, but the white spot is still visable; however She's extremely active, more than she's ever been, vigorous at feeding, and is bullying the smaller healthy male around. Is this a sign of recovery? keep in mind this fish has been through a lot of stress in the past 3 days since I decided to change it from a 20 gallon long to a 37 and then decided to remove the UGF while changing around landscapes and other equipment. The male is new. The tank hasn't begun cycling yet (0 nits and ammonia) and I've added the ick medication. should I still remove the medication with carbon, because that would be great so I can add my bio-spira and get my cycling back in order.

P.S. It doesn't really look like grains of salt. But even with the spot, these mollies are extremely active now, I've never seen mollies act like this. It's like they're on speed. Do black mollies thrive in extremely high alkalinity?

ok I'm adding the filters back in. I'm also using the bio-spira tonight and tommorow I'm going to get 3 small african cichlids along with 2 new carbon filters for my penguin 350 to remove the traces of ick medication. I don't think it's ick, they seem too healthy. It's most likely the bacterial infection you were telling me about. The infection seems to be deminishing. 1 final question, is this livebearer bacterial infection contageous to cichlids? I also added 2 teaspoons of table salt in the 37 gallons just for good measure.

Do you want the mollies? I said in my other post that as soon as the cichlids start harrassing the mollies I am going to donate them back to the dreaded pet-co where I got them from, The worst 4$ I ever spent contaminating my brand new tank. I'm sure they'll have a better time in the disease-pit I got them from /sarcasm. although I am getting attached to the little fellows, they've been too much of a hassle and there aren't many other high-alkaline fish I can group them with unless I go full saltwater.