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Old 06-14-2008, 08:49 PM   #3 (permalink)
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Default Re: distress!!! distress! i need an opinion!

When did you set up the tank? Is it newly setup? How long it has been running? The black spots sound like black algae. It does spreads around the tank on anything that isn't moving like slow growing plants. Algae grows if there is a chemical unbalance, like if there is too much phosphate due to lack of or too little water changes, too many fish for the size of the tank, etc. If it is a fairly new setup, the fish could have died for the same reason the algae appeared, e.g. high ammonia, high nitrite, high nitrate or too much phosphate. There are other reasons too.

We really need more info in order to be able to diagnose it.
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