help!!! my arowana has a problem with his eye

[troutking]

my arowana has something wrong with his eye it has white stuff covering the center part of the eye. the little circle in the center of the ey is completely covered. i have changed the water thinking it might have been cloudy eye but nothing happened. i need help asap

 

[haynchinook334]

what are you water parameter? keep up with water changes and add salt.

 

[lee1]

Add some melafix to the tank it helped mine when got a minor fungus outbreak from not qt other fish.Did he bump into something? aros have a tendency to saze out sometimes.

 

[Mobatic]

Water change and salt, and dont feed alot of protein food causes the eye to get cloudy.

 

[troutking]

Add some melafix to the tank it helped mine when got a minor fungus outbreak from not qt other fish.Did he bump into something? aros have a tendency to saze out sometimes.

yea now i remember that he jumped and hit the glass canopy. since he did should i still put melafix

 

[haynchinook334]

do the salt and bump the temp first.

 

[troutking]

how much salt should i add and u mean the aquarium salt right

 

[haynchinook334]

how much salt should i add and u mean the aquarium salt right

yep....aquarium salt.

 

[feeling2good]

could his/her eye been rubbing against the glass. it happens to mine once in a while.

 

[Bderick67]

Wow, amazing people always want to give advise yet provide no info. Generic posts like "do the salt and bump the temp first" are so helpful. Maybe provide a reason or a dosage for the salt? How about before having the OP bump up the temp, find out what the tempurater actually is and find out if there are tankmates, which may be harmed by the raised temp.

First thing, is the cloudiness in both eyes or just one? Often times aro will injure one of their eyes and it will become cloudy. If this it the case clean water is the best remedy(keep the nitrate levels around 10ppm). So likely you'll want to increase your water changes.


If both eyes are cloudy then more discussion is needed. Provide info on water params, such as temp, ammonia, nitrite, and pH levels.

BTW if you do just want to throw salt at it, dosage should be one tablespoon per 5 gallons of water. Without knowing your current temperature or tankmates I won't advise on raising the temp.