Over the past few days...my Arowana is starting to develop drop eye in his right eye, while the other one has cataract! 
Any cure for cataract or is surgery needed?
Any cure for cataract or is surgery needed?
Arowana Eyes
- Thread starter benzjamin13
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Absolutely! I have the cure! Ready? Forget about it. Thats all I can say. They will get drop eye almost always. Arowanas get it in the wild and in your fish tank. It is not a disease, it is an arowana. Thats what they do. To much time is spent worrying about this. Just love your fish. I HAVE seen severe cases in older arows but in young ones, to me, it is kind of cool. The blue color on the top of the eye looks neat. The other eye will catch up. It just seems like a distraction to worry about this. It doesn't hurt the fish. It doesn't effect their ability to hunt. It doesn't effect their ability to attract a mate. And (to me) it doesn't effect their status as one of the most graceful cool fish in the world. To many people are making to much of this, putting ping pong balls in the tank (you've got to be kidding), Hell throw a basketball in there, maybe that will help. You need to look at it as thats what the fish do. They get "drop eye". I don't even like the term, as it implies there is something wrong. I'd rather say "as arowanas mature, there eyes begin to drop, giving them an even greater menacing look than they had as youths". There, did I fix it?
I'm not so worried about the drop eye as I am about the cataracts. I know Drop Eye would've eventually happened so I wasn't too surprised about it. I guess I'm not lucky enough to get one that won't develop it. But it's really the Cataracts I'm wondering about.
describe the cataracts. I am not sure I'd know it if I saw it. How can you tell? Is it apperant by looking at the fish?
His eye is extremely cloudy. Almost white as if he was blind. It started when I did this one water change...he didn't like it or somthing. He was hanging out at the bottom and almost laid on it side. But he snapped out of it, but he started to develop cloudy eyes. It eventually went away, but not completely from his left eye. As he started to develop drop eye, the cataract go worst.
I'll see if I can get a picture.
I'll see if I can get a picture.
add salt? What do you think guys? I believe some salt would help that. Sounds funny though (what? your eye hurts? Well, let me throw some salt in it) I do believe that some amount of salt will help this. Let the MFK experts tell you how much.
