Is This Ich?

freshy

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Oh man! I can't catch a break. I'v been worried about my female guppy and her bent spine. I began treating the tank with Furan-2 capsules (antibiotic). I'm in the middle of the treatment. I performed a 25% waterchange today.

The thing is that I just noticed my male platy with whitish spots on his tail and pectoral fins. Could this be ich? I'm not sure because these spots don't really look like "little grains of salt" attached to fish body. They look more like small round "milky" coloured stains. I tried to take pictures but they come all out of focus and you can't see anything really.

The fish eats and swimms normally. I haven't seen him scratching against rocks or anything.
So, what do you guys think? Is it ich? or is it something else?

Thanks for any advice you may have
 
Well ich appears mostly on the fishes gills, and fins. If your doing something that is making the fish stressed then he could've caught it. The only time that a fish will start to scrach against objects is when the disease is becoming worse.
 
It parasite or bacterial, need water stats in ammonia,nitrite,nitrate,and ph, do the spots have a red cirling to them or a red centre, any laboured breathing or flicking and rubbing against objects, and is the dorsal fin clamped.
 

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