HELP, peacock with weird eye

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sainthitch

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Hey guys, one of the new peacocks that i got, seemed fine at the start...

Yesterday he started to be more lathargic and hang around the top...so i removed him and put him in my holding tank. Since then, his on eye has become cloudy and enlarged. Hes not eating right now. He still swims around but on an angle so he can see out of his other eye.

Water quality on both tanks are great, as all the other 20 or so fish are doing great, hell 2 are pregnant.

Any ideas!! hes one of my best looking fish, dont want him to die.
 
oh ya. water changes of around 25% every week, the tank is way over filtered...literaly all the other fish are in perfect shape....he has only been in this tank for about 2-3 days now so maybe the change could of effected him...hes in the small tank now...see how that turns out for him.
 
Its a bacterial infection, the bacteria cause the eye to appear cloudy and then it gets behind the eyeball and multiplies causing the eye to bulge. I treated for this previously with melafix. I followed the directions on the bottle of melafix (walmart 5 bucks) . I did however use slightly less than the recommended dose cause i have too much sand and huge thick rocks in my tanks , I also lowered my water level to force the water to splash down into the tank (helps surface agitation/oxy levels). Melafix has a rep for causing heavy breathing. I have seen many people say they wont use it for that reason and because of fish deaths using melafix. I have never had a fish die from using melafix but i do a couple things differently than most : So use a airstone or drop your water level. Remove carbon before treating with melafix. After treatment do 50 percent water change and add back in the carbon in your filters. Let it run for 24 hours cleaning the melafix out then you can do a second treatment after 24 hours if needed. (sometimes a second treatment is needed ). It says to redose daily, i dont do that, i dose every 2 or 3 days. Melafix is great for curing bacterial infections such as body wounds, body fungus (white puffy tufts), eye cloud, even HITH caused by dirty tank conditions (I treated half dose over long period (2 months) with the 24 hours off every 4 or 5 days in conjunction with clean water conditions, cured moderate hole in the head in two rescue oscars). It is also great as a preventative for infections in damaged fish . I even had a fish that peeled up part of its cornea (flapping behind as it swam !) This fish didnt develop a infection and didnt lose its eye. I treated with the melafix as soon as i saw the damage. Its eye looks completly normal. Hope this info is helpful.
 
My condolences :( I hate when you just got a sweet new fish and then you look in the tank and it's dead.
 
Sorry to hear that, he likely had something else wrong with him besides the eye to die that quickly. It ususally takes several days untreated to start looking real ugly and even then they usually dont die from it and will heal like it never happened. Sorry .
 
there must of been something else. this literaly took 24 hours and he was done.

Now im worried about the other fish in the main tank...did another water change today, checked all the prams. everything good and no one else showing any signs.
 
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