I put Prime in the buckets the evening before and then add the bucket water in the morning followed by the Rid-Ich immediately after. Someone on aquamaniacs suggested I could try using the python again for water changes/treatment in the morning and put the meds in at night. Now that the clown loach is acting more normal I may go back to that on work days because the bucket brigade is taking chunks of time. I am using a new bottle of Rid-Ich too. This loach was heavily covered with ich at one point so I suppose it's going to take a while for him. He's not visibly eating but maybe getting some sort of micronutrients out of the water? I'm sure he hasn't eaten for a week or more. He's not looking emaciated.