frontosa poped eye

[LOCO_LOCO]

one of my frontosa was hidding under the rocks like a month , she alwas there mostly times, and week ago i saw one of her eye has pooped out, why this happend to her?
thx

 

[slowef]

Pooped out or Popped out?? It was probably eaten out. What other fish do you have in the tank??

 

[LOCO_LOCO]

its pooped out, i have some other litttle frontosas and big male, and lot of different size mbuma africans.

 

[mike dunagan]

Fronts do not do well with mbuna... Is the eye gone or is it pop eye?

 

[LOCO_LOCO]

ITS IN REALLY BAD SHAPE, LOOK LIKES GONNA POOPED SOON, ITS ALL WHITE AND SWOLEN NOW,

 

[mike dunagan]

It is called pop eye. They have meds for it. Go get some. I would move to a smaller hospital tank to make it cheaper and easier to treat.

 

[addicted2cichlids]

It is called pop eye. They have meds for it. Go get some. I would move to a smaller hospital tank to make it cheaper and easier to treat.

agree!

 

[Red Devil]

how is she doing...i hope she is getting better,. Her eye was either injured, or it is a fungus, or mbuna picked on it...since mbuna are so fast and frontosa so slow...they are not very good tank mates...theres a few that are okay such as yellow labs{electric yellow} they are very sweet non aggressive africans and ususally trouble free with frontosa..

 

[Trippingpara]

Sounds like Pop Eye to me. That is usually caused by a couple of different causes. It could have injured it's eye on the rock or some of the mbunas might have gotten to him. It could also be from various bacteria. I would remove to a hospital tank and treat with meds.

 

[cichlidgirl]

I agree, treat for pop eye, do a big water change and gravel vacume too. Get the mbuna out of her tank or give her a new tank with out mbuna. Mbuna do not make suitable tankmates. I have only seen a couple species that are possiable , but even those were not the best choice. I moved all my mbuna to their own tank, they liked it and the fronts liked it best that way. Good luck.