Is This Ich Or Something Else On Blue Tang?

I've had my Blue Tang for about 5-6 weeks now.
He eats like a pig: Seaweed Sheets, Flakes, Rod's Food, etc.

He doesn't seem to show any signs of stress. He swims around, doesn't flash up or rub on stuff, isn't lethargic or anything.

But he keeps getting what I would call bumps. It doesn't really look like ich, more so like these grey little bumps.
I kind of assume it is ich, since that seems to be the thing with them, but I picture ich as more spread and less random. Not 100%

Here's a photo I just took of him sleeping... The color is pretty much the same day or night.
The symptoms come and go as far as the amount of visible bumps.

All other fish has no visible abnormalities.

He's small, maybe an inch.
I'd love any thoughts or suggestions.

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To me it looks like small "flesh" wounds from where the ich parasite has come dislodged from your fish. But I'm still new to the hobby so I'm not sure.
 
Someone elsewhere said it might be "black spot disease"
Which is apparently a parasitic infestation of flatworm type worms...

I was going to buy some Prazipro maybe.

Anyone else with ideas?
 
There was a recent post of flukes. I haven't the slightest if that is ick or not, but flukes are enough "ick-like" from what I remember to throw it out there for you to take a look at. Good luck
 
Pull to quarantine and treat with hypo would be my recommendation. The course for hypo is outlined in the stickies above. That should get either flukes or ich.
 
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