Hey guys. I am having a cloudy eye epidemic in my 180g planted tank.
It houses:
10 Polypterus ranging from 6" to 15.5"
2 Florida gar 12" and 14.5"
2 tropical gar 10" and 11"
3 clown loaches 5.5"
1 Raphael catfish 5.5"
I am in the final stages of my 300g set up, and will be migrating 50% of the stock when it is finished.
So it started with my 15.5" congicus and large gar. A large piece of talapia got sucked into my canister, presumably when I was cleaning of the intake guard. I did not notice and my ammonia spiked to 2.0 before I caught it. I also added the two tropical gar at this time.
Params were previously, and are currently
0 nitrite
0 ammonia (or very close)
5-15 nitrate
I cleaned the filter, removed the talapia, and did a 70% water change. I continued doing daily 25% water changes for the next three days and the congicus looked better even though the big flgar looked worse off.
I picked up melafix and added the recommended dose for 5 days with absolutely no sign that it was letting up. Around day 3 the cloudy eye returned to my congicus, and was picked up by 4 other Polypterus in spite of the perfect params. It was also picked up by both tropical gar and my other Florida gar.
I still did a 25% water change every day during the first 5 days of melafix. Day 6 I repeated. Last night was day 7. I added salt (40% recommended dose) after the daily water change in addition to melafix and upped the temperature from 81f to 84.
My large ornate is scratching on rocks and a few of my Poly's are laying in strange places in uncomfortable looking positions.
I should note I have 15lp of airflow at the moment, and most of my fish breathe off of the surface anyway.
Could this be something besides cloudy eye? Pics incoming.
It houses:
10 Polypterus ranging from 6" to 15.5"
2 Florida gar 12" and 14.5"
2 tropical gar 10" and 11"
3 clown loaches 5.5"
1 Raphael catfish 5.5"
I am in the final stages of my 300g set up, and will be migrating 50% of the stock when it is finished.
So it started with my 15.5" congicus and large gar. A large piece of talapia got sucked into my canister, presumably when I was cleaning of the intake guard. I did not notice and my ammonia spiked to 2.0 before I caught it. I also added the two tropical gar at this time.
Params were previously, and are currently
0 nitrite
0 ammonia (or very close)
5-15 nitrate
I cleaned the filter, removed the talapia, and did a 70% water change. I continued doing daily 25% water changes for the next three days and the congicus looked better even though the big flgar looked worse off.
I picked up melafix and added the recommended dose for 5 days with absolutely no sign that it was letting up. Around day 3 the cloudy eye returned to my congicus, and was picked up by 4 other Polypterus in spite of the perfect params. It was also picked up by both tropical gar and my other Florida gar.
I still did a 25% water change every day during the first 5 days of melafix. Day 6 I repeated. Last night was day 7. I added salt (40% recommended dose) after the daily water change in addition to melafix and upped the temperature from 81f to 84.
My large ornate is scratching on rocks and a few of my Poly's are laying in strange places in uncomfortable looking positions.
I should note I have 15lp of airflow at the moment, and most of my fish breathe off of the surface anyway.
Could this be something besides cloudy eye? Pics incoming.
