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As long as there is somewnere for them to hide if they need to. Have you cycled the tank, I presume it is a new set up.

Most will be fine. The only ones to watch are the ones that sift the sand like bklue cheek gobie.

You can put sand in as long as you don't move it to your main tank. Some fish require a substrate (some wrasses etc) so by not putting any in you could stress the fish even more. It won't affect the medicine by trapping it.

Leave the fish in the tank. Have the new saltwater mixed and up to temperature before you start.

If it just lost it's feathers then they should grow back. They sometimes do this when they are stressed etc

I use Rowaphos

If you are having algae or cyano problems then you need to test and treat phophates.

In that case you can't really treat your 75 gallon because it has stock in there (you would never put copper in your main tank anyway). I would use the water from your 75g and fill or part fill your 29g. Mix up some fresh salt water and get it to the right temperature to put in your 75g. A...

Yeah, what else is in the 75g?

2 1/2 gallon is a pretty small tank but you are stuck for choices really. Hyposalinity must be done properly (with a refractometer). It involves slowly lowering the salinity (SG) until it kills the ich and then slowly raising it again. If you use copper you will need to do it properly aswell...

Astreas/turbos are very hit and miss. Mine do well for a while then start dying for no reason, then the rest are ok for a while, then another one or 2 die........

Nitrates/nitrites are normal range Nitrites should be zero - what are the exact readings for both? What is the phosphate reading?

Also, you need your own test kits rather than rely on the LFS. Have they tested for phosphates?

What is plato?

Use as much from the established tank as you can. Is it possible to have the new tank set up before yopu move, how far is the move?

I have him in the frag tank (only softies in there now Copper is harmful to softiew aswell!

If your tank is cycling then you cannot get a reliable test result for pH.

What are you testing the pH with? What type of water are you using to mix the salt with, what is the pH of it before you mix the salt. It seems strange that you are having trouble with 2 lots of salt.

curiosity killed the live rock Excellent!!!

Get a big time cleaner crew in there, (cleaner shrimp are priceless in this scenario). Cleaner shrimp will not touch nuisance algae - don't buy any expecting them to do this.