Critical!!! Injured Archer!!!!! HELP!!!

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ferco

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hi all, as you may have guessed from my title my archer is injured... i was moving a small piece of bogwood away from the corner today, usually the archers are fine with my hand being in the water, and don't notice the metal stick... BUT today i was pushing the log with the stick, when one of the archer, my favourite!!! :swear: , shot off, i heard a small thump... :eek: but i thought, wel i can;t say wat i though, but u get the idea, i thought, something, then mabye he's just a bit dazed... but later tonight i looked and his eye is wierd!!! he doesn't seem to be himself, always the first and leading the way to shoot down crickets, he just stayed in the corner for like a min after the cricket was put in... he eventually came over looking nervous, and gingerlly shot once or twice, but to nothing... i took some pics and circled the little bulge around his eys, he looks like a bubble eyed goldfish now on his right eye, i am really worried!!! my poor little fish, also the others seem to be picking on him, mabye it was just my imagination, but one like chased him away from the cricket, and he just left with no fight... :cry: normaly they play, but he just left... is there anything i can do to fix this, i hav heard others saying they bought medicines for their fish.. is this curable... shuld i mabye isolate him, it's just im not to keen on this as they HATE moving tanks, i mean soo baad worst fish i have ever had for it, they do anything to avoid the net, i am scared of either hurting the othere, or he is too stressed out or he hurts himself further!!! wat do i do? i have attatched the sed pics:

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Damn, You could try to manually, gently re-orbit the eye by using surgical gloves and Gently sliding your fingertip forward across the eye but I am not sure it would work and it ill stress the fish. It would probably be better to just watch for excess aggression from the other fish (be prepared to isolate the fish), watch for infection, and hope it heals on it's own.
 
ok, do you rekon i should mabybe post this again in the fish health bit, i just saw it this mornig??... also, i agree i think that the whole manually doing it idea is a good idea in theory but my fish are far to skitiish and may die from that they get really freaked! anyway thanks for the help.
 
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