Aimara eye damaged by dorado..

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Hey guys, my aimara suffered some eye damage overnight I'm assuming from the dorado as he would be the only plausible culprit. I already ordered a divider but i won't be able to get it until the day after tomorrow. I'm a bit worried as the right eye is a little swollen and very white. I'm not sure if it is just exterior or has penetrated a deeper layer. I have spare large bowl that probably holds 40 gallons of water give or take. Shall I siphon water and place a sponge filter with heater, salt and net the aimara in there to heal or wait till the divider gets here. I don't want to stress out the aimara anymore than it is already. He's looking to bite anything that comes near him.. Another alternative would be for me to net out the dorado and place in that bowl or maybe friends tank.

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I've already made a 50% water change today and dropped a half kilo bag of salt in the tank along with temperatures raised to 31 Celsius.
 
Take out the dorado and put in your friend tank if he have a spare tank. or make up a temp divider or get something fast. Once the dorado saw weakness from your Aimara he's going to continue borthering him.

Water change and salt is good way to start.
 
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Aye, doradoes are relentless especially this one. I think I'll set up the temporary 30-40g jug and put him in there for the time being until I get the divider up. Thanks for the suggestion.
 
The Aimara might jump from that place.

Is it better to get the dorado out first?

Looks like he got both eyes injured. Possibly he jumped or smashed into something inside the tank? Dorado is more of a body or fin biter as compared to species that go for the eyes.
 
Would take the wolf out and leave the dorado. In case the wolf is bothered by another fish. Salt and clean water like sticky rice mentioned. Should get better soon. Not sure if the vision will be altered. Watch out for secondary infection. Hope it gets better.
 
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I'd move the Dorado. The wolf probably got messed up trying to kill the Dorado.
 
I agree with the others, salt and clean water, the left eye will be fine, the right, may be messed up for awhile, but Imo will heal eventually back to normal. Wolves are impressive with what they can heal from. My curu had a problem with his eyes not long after I got him some time ago for some reason, and it was weird his eyes like peeled off, but they're completely normal now. It's weird. He was the only fish affected by whatever it was. I'd take the wolf out to seclude it and allow it to be stress free personally. I'm beginning to think dorados are the toughest characin lol. This is like the third story I've read of one beating on an aimara. Also agree with red in the fact that the aimara might try to jump out of that. Ime generally wolves don't jump unless being attacked relentlessly though. But it's stressed so this can lay a role possibly.
 
Aimara don't handle moves well. They tend tio stay upset about moves for a while. Will go weeks without food if moved around alot. Dorado don't explode into freak out sesions like the wolves will. The dorado was likely a fraction the cost of the Aimara, no reason to act like it's the other way around.... Move the Aimara and the Dorado sees that, will get a big head and will know that another knockout blow gets him the tank to himself. Move the Dorado if it was the one that screwed up, the Aimara isn't going to see the trip to the qt/hospital tank as beneficial. IF the Dorado is the problem get him used to being moved to solitary after every incident. IF it learns great, if not replace with a Brassie. :)
 
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