OK, so it feels like every thread about silvers ends up having something to do with droopy eyes...I tought we could start talking about specific set-ups that generate droop eye fish, or not.
For example, it seems to be straight forward that if you keep a silver in a pond or non-glass container, it's eyes will be normal, be it for whatever reason, but if you take a silver from the same source and put in a glass tank, droop eye will occur...
I have silvers in both settings and have to say that the above holds true for me, the ones in glass tanks have developed the crazy eye, the ones in the rubbermaid container have not. They have all been fed the same way, and water quality is the same.
Generally speaking the ones in the containers are in larger water volumes, so maybe their overall health may be better due to the increased space (?).
The ones in glass tanks have the folowing options offered as causes, damage due to hitting the lid all the time, overhead intense lighting, little exercise and fatty diets, too much movement in the side of the tank (therefore causing the fish to focus downward (?)), little surface agitation, etc.
Anyone care to elaborate or add to any of the perceived causes?
I am going to offer the following, I will take two healthy fish with no "crazy eye", and put one in each setting and let them grow out and observe, also will take a normal fish from a container and put it into a glass tank to see if the deformity develops.
Now I never heard of an arowana recovering from droopy eye other then by surgery, can anyone report on that? Has anyone personally achieved that? Not heard of, but done it him/herself?
Lastly, no experiment can be conducted alone, anyone else interested in trying? It would be awesome to have another control group, and the only thing we have to do is what we done anyway, care for our fish.
Feedback? Thanks! Rod
For example, it seems to be straight forward that if you keep a silver in a pond or non-glass container, it's eyes will be normal, be it for whatever reason, but if you take a silver from the same source and put in a glass tank, droop eye will occur...
I have silvers in both settings and have to say that the above holds true for me, the ones in glass tanks have developed the crazy eye, the ones in the rubbermaid container have not. They have all been fed the same way, and water quality is the same.
Generally speaking the ones in the containers are in larger water volumes, so maybe their overall health may be better due to the increased space (?).
The ones in glass tanks have the folowing options offered as causes, damage due to hitting the lid all the time, overhead intense lighting, little exercise and fatty diets, too much movement in the side of the tank (therefore causing the fish to focus downward (?)), little surface agitation, etc.
Anyone care to elaborate or add to any of the perceived causes?
I am going to offer the following, I will take two healthy fish with no "crazy eye", and put one in each setting and let them grow out and observe, also will take a normal fish from a container and put it into a glass tank to see if the deformity develops.
Now I never heard of an arowana recovering from droopy eye other then by surgery, can anyone report on that? Has anyone personally achieved that? Not heard of, but done it him/herself?
Lastly, no experiment can be conducted alone, anyone else interested in trying? It would be awesome to have another control group, and the only thing we have to do is what we done anyway, care for our fish.
Feedback? Thanks! Rod