Is this ICH?!

Mariac1990

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I noticed a white spot on my fish that wasn’t there yesterday. It looks like it’s laying on top of the fin not inside of it? He also developed a small brown spot at the top of his head but I can’t get a good picture of it. He’s in a 5 gallon. He’s under a year.
 

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It's not white spot.

It looks like excess mucous. The fish might have injured its fin and has produced some extra mucous to cover the wound.

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Test the water for ammonia, nitrite, nitrate and pH.

Wipe the inside of the glass down with a clean fish sponge. This removes the biofilm on the glass and the biofilm will contain lots of harmful bacteria, fungus, protozoans and various other microscopic life forms.

Do a 75% water change and gravel clean the substrate every day for a week. The water changes and gravel cleaning will reduce the number of disease organisms in the water and provide a cleaner environment for the fish to recover in. It also removes a lot of the gunk and this means any medication can work on treating the fish instead of being wasted killing the pathogens in the gunk.
Make sure any new water is free of chlorine/ chloramine before it is added to the tank.

Clean the filter if it hasn't been done in the last 2 weeks. However, if the filter is less than 6 weeks old, do not clean it. Wash the filter materials/ media in a bucket of tank water and re-use the media. Tip the bucket of dirty water on the garden/ lawn. Cleaning the filter means less gunk and cleaner water with fewer pathogens so any medication (if needed) will work more effectively on the fish.

Increase surface turbulence/ aeration to maximise the dissolved oxygen in the water.

Monitor the fish and if it gets worse, post more pictures asap.
 
Ich looks like sprinkled salt all over the fish
 
It's not white spot.

It looks like excess mucous. The fish might have injured its fin and has produced some extra mucous to cover the wound.

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Test the water for ammonia, nitrite, nitrate and pH.

Wipe the inside of the glass down with a clean fish sponge. This removes the biofilm on the glass and the biofilm will contain lots of harmful bacteria, fungus, protozoans and various other microscopic life forms.

Do a 75% water change and gravel clean the substrate every day for a week. The water changes and gravel cleaning will reduce the number of disease organisms in the water and provide a cleaner environment for the fish to recover in. It also removes a lot of the gunk and this means any medication can work on treating the fish instead of being wasted killing the pathogens in the gunk.
Make sure any new water is free of chlorine/ chloramine before it is added to the tank.

Clean the filter if it hasn't been done in the last 2 weeks. However, if the filter is less than 6 weeks old, do not clean it. Wash the filter materials/ media in a bucket of tank water and re-use the media. Tip the bucket of dirty water on the garden/ lawn. Cleaning the filter means less gunk and cleaner water with fewer pathogens so any medication (if needed) will work more effectively on the fish.

Increase surface turbulence/ aeration to maximise the dissolved oxygen in the water.

Monitor the fish and if it gets worse, post more pictures asap.
You are awesome thank you!!!!
 
Good morning!!! I checked on him today and the white spot is GONE. He still has a little brown spot on the top of his head.
 
It could be natural colouration or he lost a couple of scales off his head. It's not a normal disease though so just monitor it. If it changes colour or goes red or white and fluffy, post more pictures.
 

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