cloudy eye! Eeek
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I have had this happen to my fish on more than one occasion. Every time it was from some sort of fighting like you originally expected. All I did was keep the water quality top notch and add a bit more aquariuim salt than I normally use. I avoid using medications when they are not needed and only as a last result. I had a dat whose eye was far worse than your jags and it healed 100%. It took some time though. I would guess three weeks to completely heal. I have had it happen much less severe in a leichardti arowana and it only took a weeks time.
Bsixxx;1051439; said:eek!
never mind its still all white
is he going to be back to normal if i get that stuff?
"Back to normal" is a loose term, LOL. When dealing with injuries or infections, there is always a chance that something might be lost (the eye), or that some level of permanent damage will remain - though the animal will once more be healthy - which is the overall goal. When it comes to loss, I am not talking about literally loosing the eye, this is far from that. But one thing that could always be a possibility later on is blindness. Thats why we want to address the issue now, as to minimize any chances of permanent damage. Sure it could be a wound resulting from a fight, but then why would the female have healed and not him? Sure the eyes are far more sensitive and take longer sometimes to heal, but then again look at the very distinct and defined discoloration on the location. Wounds are not that "precise" but rather more erradic, and would have affected the entire eye from a blunt force, rather than the Iris and pupil specifically. There would have been noticable irritation and tissue distortion on the surrounding areas as well from a typical "fight" injury. I am not ruling out that the innitial cause was an injury from a quarrel, but I am however pretty certain that it is no longer a simple injury, but that maybe has developed a bacterial infection now, which now needs to be addressed accordingly. If you choose to use more simple meathods to start with (Raising temp, isolation, water changes, melafix, raising salinity) then that is fine, but I strongly urge you to monitor this carefully so that you can note any improvement, or lack thereof, and worse case scenario - further decline. You dont want to wait until it's far more advanced to treat it properly, because then it becomes difficult to fully erradicate, as well as holds the possibility of lasting damage (such as your fish being blind in that eye), or it spreading to other tissues. I am never against trying other meathods before jumping to strong meds, I think that is always wise to start from the most basic and work your way up, but I do advise that you keep a very close eye on your fish and monitor his progress/regression very carefully. As far as the medication working - I have used it before with nothing but sucess, but it is one which can be dangerous if you dont know what you are doing. so if you decide to use this, make sure you read the entire container BEFORE treating, as well as trying to read up on it through the web or what not for additional information. And keep us updated on how things are going. And make sure to pay attention!
Bsixxx;1051654; said:thank you waterbaby for all your help, i am going to continue the treatment i am doing now for another week and if i see no improvement i will try out your method.
thank you
Sounds good, and you are very welcome, no problem at all!! Keep us updated! Good luck.
water_baby83;1052506; said:Sounds good, and you are very welcome, no problem at all!! Keep us updated! Good luck.
new update, ok dont get mad or say im dumb. but i got a new fish so i had to move him back to the big tank and now his eye is getting clear
like now i can see his pupil but there is still that white stuff over it
anyway i have a new probalem, this new fish i have got beat up a little bit when i put it in my tank and now it has like this fungus stuff on it
but i think its only his slime coat? but it kind looks like he was getting eatin alive in that tank, so i took him out and put him in this 2.5gallon container and filled it with some mela fix and placed him in my big tank
probably a bad idea but im going to put him back in the tank i originally had him in in about a week or so because i am making it a sump, wet/dry but making a different connection source, like he gets water from my big tank but that water from his tank doesnt touch my water in my big tank it goes to another filter, if that made since. anyway ill try to get a picture of him, looks pretty bad but he is swimming normal and eating, so i dont really think anything is wrong with him just some slime coat cause he was stressed.