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Does my guppy have a fungus?

My daughter's guppy is ill, and my daughter is really upset, so obviously I need to figure this out before said guppy goes belly up. She has what appears to be a large patch of eroded skin on her back (the fish, not my daughter), and some sort of weird cloudy/clear stuff attached to it. It's not really white or gray, like I've read fungii should be, so I'm not sure what it is. The fish doesn't seem to be very distressed or anything. She's eating well, and she's still active. I've been raising and breeding bettas for years, but I've never run across an actual fungus on a fish (or anything else that looks remotely like this). Could someone check out this picture and let me know if I'm dealing with a fungus, or something else? Thanks! http://i25.tinypic.com/5twe3r.jpg I've isolated her, and I've added Maracyn 2 and Maroxy to the hospital tank, as well as a little Melafix and a few granules of aquarium salt. The temp is about 78-79 in the tank at the moment.

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1. It is parasites. It can be cured with a fungal medicine of any kind, or Cure Ick. That's what it claims, but I'd suggest you not use it. All the fish i've used it on have died...except one...that little sucker will never die! LOL
2. just looking at the pic, it looks like body slime / open sore / body wound. If it is, it was probably injured somehow and the wound got infected by some bacteria. It's hard to tell 100% but as for the remedy ( you probably know already) but Melafix, Primafix should do a good job. Isolate it, medicate it, then bump up the temperature a few degrees. That should do the trick.