Black Spot Disease ID (pic)

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110 Gallon XH Eclipse
Current Stock:
1 F JD
1 M FM
1 M Texas (pic included)
6 Tetra

Setup for 1 year +, water has always been spot on. Ammonia 0, Nitrite 0, Nitrate 10, PH 8.0, hardness 16.

Yesterday I noticed a couple black marks on the bottom of my texas. They appear to be about the same size today. This morning I also noticed 2 small black marks on my FM. I've attached a picture for ID. I think it's black spot disease and from my understanding frequent water changes are the best way to let this pass over the next 2 weeks.

Is this a correct ID? Is there anything else I should do?

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that doesn't look like black spot to me ... hard to tell though usually black spt is more peppered through the whole body... can you get pics of the FH? Do you have a uv sterilizer? can you add some aquarium salt and raise temp to about 84?
 
I haven't been able to get a good picture of the FM showing the spots - I'll try again tonight.

Any other throughts/ideas on what it may be?
 
hard to tell!! is there any other symptoms? do they scratch on rocks or the gravel? do they breath at the top? are their fins clamped? are they eating? any other info would be helpful!!
 
Sorry, I guess I left that out becuase they're all acting normal. Eating great, nothing abnormal. The texas does occasionally dig himself into a rock pile I have that is a little tight. He could scrtach himself on that, but the FM hangs out in a larger plant bed I have and he never seems to go into the rocks or dig.
 
Acting normal for any fish is normally a good sign. I can't see any real problems in the pictures, any updates?
 
The spots seem to slowly be going away on the Texas. I've just been following good protocal of doing a 20% water change every other day and feeding light. Little guy still has one hell of an appitite. The spots are completely gone from the FM.
 
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