blind poly

[tyl089]

Hello everyone, today I picked up two senegal bichirs, one albino, perfectly healthy, but the other normal bichir with him is blind in both eyes or should say eye since one eye ball is completely picked off and the other one is white and look a bit swollen. So I acclimated him, in the 10g, raised the temp on the tank he's at, to 82F, put a half cup of salt water into the tank, and hand fed him some fish strips.

He ate those pretty quick, and before I went to work, look like he's settling in.

My question is what more do I need to do? I'm thinking of making partial water changes everyday to keep water quality up, but there's no way he will see again, but then, I know bichir rely more on smell anyway, but how long would I expect him to recuperate, or would he succumb to infection and how long would he live even if there's no infection?

Thank you. I'll try to get pics soon.

 

[tyl089]

10 views and no feed back?

c'mon, pls help, all feed backs are welcome.

 

[tokyogasmask]

It will be fine.
Expect it to turn very dark, maybe almost black.

 

[pookie]

If it looks like it is rotting or something, its probably bad. Animals can survive gruesome things, and be fine. I think it will be fine, if it was going to die, it probably would have...

 

[Spiritofthesoul]

Agree wif TGM about it turning black. It would be thinking it's in a dark environment and change colour to blend in

 

[tyl089]

Thank you all for the feedbacks.

Again, will try to get pics soon, it's going to be on my cell phone, so quality probably not going to be too good.

the right eye is completely gone and only a socket is left, it's actually the left eye i'm worried more about since it looks white and puffy. But, i'm just going to keep up w/salt additions in the water as well as frequent water changes to make sure his(?) water quality stays good.

Don't care what color his body changes as long as I don't have to worry about him getting secondary infections. At least he's eating.

 

[Desert Bus]

It'll be fine once the other eye heals/dies/whatever. Bichirs depend on smell mostly. If salt and heat and clean water don't work, you can always try Melafix/Pimafix.

 

[tyl089]

thanks all for the feedbacks. This morning, I relocated him to the main tank the 45g one,

because he don't seem too comfortable inside the 10g. added salt solution, and partial water changes which will be a daily routine until his eye and eye socket fully seal up or heal up. IDK.

but, here is the pics of him. quality is poor, and I'm actually lucky that he was staying so still for me to snap these pics of him. Not sure if you can see the eye socket which is more black now. No signs of fungus, and he also ate two more pieces of fish.