Just noticed that one eye on my green wolf eel is cloudy. It almost looks like it has a opaque covering. the other eye is fine. She is also hiding more than usual. Checked nitrates they are 20ppm(fish only setup) and PH is ~8.3. Doing water change today(do weekly 20-25 %). She shares tank with a lionfish and he seems to be doing great. Do I wait a while or treat and with what.
Cloudy Eye on Green Wolf Eel
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Cloudy eye is usually caused by stress. The stresser can be poor water conditions, poor diet, bad gentics, or being picked on by other fish. The infection is in the eye itself not exposed to the water so nothing short of injected antibiotics will work as far as meds go. HOWEVER good clean water usually cures this in a week or so with no meds. Keep up w/ the weekly W/C and daily no chlorine top off, seperate if picked on.
A little different look on things here.
After re-adding my blue tang to my 125g reef, (nitrates between 10-20ppm) he got a cloudy eye on one side, and went into hiding like you said.
It got better in a few days by itself, and then...one day I woke up to find that the other eye was now cloudy...this has also fixed itself within a week. I have no idea whats going on...but he seems to be fully recovered at this point.
Like Otherone said, keep h2o quality and nutrition up, while trying to reduce stress.
After re-adding my blue tang to my 125g reef, (nitrates between 10-20ppm) he got a cloudy eye on one side, and went into hiding like you said.
It got better in a few days by itself, and then...one day I woke up to find that the other eye was now cloudy...this has also fixed itself within a week. I have no idea whats going on...but he seems to be fully recovered at this point.
Like Otherone said, keep h2o quality and nutrition up, while trying to reduce stress.
cloudy eyes can be one of many ailments, saprolegnia fungas,protozoan infestation, parasite,fluke the most common is a bacterial infection, cause can be bad water , injury that has been infected, stress coupled with bad water, some will clear up with improved water, and good diet if the animal is healthy others will kill animal unless treated with anti biotics