You should try the heat/salt method for treating ich and it won't hurt your plants. You can (slowly) move the heat up to 85deg and (slowly) add 2 teaspoons of salt per gallon. Treat for at least 2 weeks and/or 1 week after the last visible sign of ich whichever is longer. I can't emphasize enough that you should raise temp and salt levels slowly as not to stress your fish too much. Also you should dissolve the salt in tank water before adding to the tank.

Depending on the plants, I didn't see if you mentioned what they were, you can keep them in a bucket/tub with just an air pump on an airstone and they'll be fine.

Target brand large scoopable cat litter tubs (they're a tall squarish sturdy plastic bucket) work really well for plants. I use them for some pond plants that I overwinter indoors.

got ya thanks

just a up date... been treating with rid ich and lost one fish. he was the worsted as far as being covered in white spots and always at the top gasping! figured he would not make it.... the rest of the fish seem fine and there are less ich spots on the fish them selves, there still chasing each other like crazy and i have one really big strong , colorful looking one that really loves to show he's in charge lol
So I will just keep up with the treatment and keep my fingers crossed!

Good luck! Hope you can keep the losses at a minimum.

I have been lucky enough to only have had to treat my tanks for ich once. The salt and heat worked great and I had no deaths as a result. The one benefit I did have was I caught it early. If caught too late sometimes there's nothing that will save them.

ya, I 've had one loss but no more vissible sign of ich, and the rest of the fish seem ok so im gonna teat for like another week and see how it goes. I used the Rid Ich stuff at half dose, because I have cats in there to

Sounds like it's going good. Like you mentioned, just be sure to run out the treatment as suggested in the directions. Too many people see the improvements and stop treatment early. Which doesn't help anything. You are doing it the right way. I just wanted to throw that out there in case others read this post.