White dots on inside of aquarium tank and on plant

Question
Hi Megan!

I have a 5-gallon tank with one common pleco and an anubias plant.  Unfortunately, the little guy is really sick from a bad case of ich and has cloudy eyes.  The other three small fish we had in the tank (two feeder goldfish and a guppy) all had the ich and died recently.  The two goldfish were in separate quarantine tanks when they died, but the guppy died suddenly last night without his body looking as bad as the goldfishes. As our tank is only about a week old and I made the mistake of not cycling the tank before adding my fish, I was advised to not add in a medication to further stress out the fish.  I've been performing frequent water changes to try and keep the ammonium, nitrite, and nitrate levels low and to try to combat the ich.  I have also added some Fritz-Zyme #7 and some Am-Quel to try to help out the situation.  However, I noticed today that there are white dots on the inside walls of the aquarium and on the leaves of my anubias plant - the dots aren't moving and are very small.  Could you please offer any advice or insight into the situation? I'm getting a lot of conflicting advice from different sources and I don't know what I should do to solve the problem and save my pleco.  Please help! Thank you!

--Patsy

Answer
If the same white spots are everywhere, than it is not Ich (as far as I know) but possibly a fungus. I would try some fugus tablets and add an ammonia remover to the filter to keep the ammonia down. More real plants should help with the Nitrate or Nitrite problem (I can never remember which!). The cloudy eye worries me a bit because it could be a bacterial infection that can only be treated with antibiotics.

Please forgive the lateness of my reply.