Help...What is this

[Bre]

I noticed this this morning...What is this and is there anything I can do for it?

 

[chloe]

cant see it overly clearly...is it that white spot on its head?
maybe add osme salt and up the temp for time being

 

[uncwnells]

A better picture would help, and maybe something to be posted in the illness section?

 

[Bre]

I tried for a better pic but he won't hold still. I'll try again later.It is his eye...the picture doesn't show it well but it looks like he has an eyeball with no pupil or retina. It looks like the covering is gone.

 

[mahemaheman85]

id try melafix

 

[Muske]

Just happened over night?

Could be sratched on a decoration. I have a Syno. that had the same looking eye. He has since outgrown the spot and is perfectly fine.

Still eating and acting normal?

 

[Bre]

Yeah...happened over night and yes, he is still acting normal.

 

[woofy]

injury maybe? best u can do for now until u can find out exactly how to treat it and what it is , is to do what chloe said. heat and salt.

 

[cichlidgirl]

The clouded eye is from a eye injury if it appeared out of the blue over night. Left untreated it will get worse. For very minor ones you can sometimes get away with some large water changes but for ones where infection has set it i like to use melafix. (i like to buy my melafix at walmart, 6 bucks, and they have the related fungus med pimafix for the same price as well). My red empress female had to be moved to a new tank, had a terriable time catching her. I tried to net her in a cave and she gouged her eyeball real bad on a rock. Had a piece of her lens peeled up and the next morning the whole eye was clouded and filmed over. I removed the carbon from my filter and treated the whole tank with melafix as directed on the bottle. After 3 repeated treatments (with a day off in between each one to run a bit of carbon and do a 50 percent water change) you cant even tell it happended . I suggest you do the same treatment. If you have not done a good waterchange or tank cleaning for a while go ahead and do it now then add the melafix to the cleaned tank and watch that eye get better. After the treatment clears the eye up be sure to study the eyeball closely once a day for about a week to make sure it doesnt come back, first sign of a hazy eye relapse hit it once more with the melafix . Best to start the treatment right away. Dont over dose, follow directions exactly on bottle. Treatment is the same for several related issues such as eyecloud (from dirty substrate/water), fin rot and several other problems. These are bacterial in nature and melafix works great for me, never had a problem. Sometimes for repeated treatments i will use slightly less than the recommended dose since often the injury or infection is healing by that time and not as bad since i have treated with a full dose at least once all ready.

 

[Red Devil]

The clouded eye is from a eye injury if it appeared out of the blue over night. Left untreated it will get worse. For very minor ones you can sometimes get away with some large water changes but for ones where infection has set it i like to use melafix. (i like to buy my melafix at walmart, 6 bucks, and they have the related fungus med pimafix for the same price as well). My red empress female had to be moved to a new tank, had a terriable time catching her. I tried to net her in a cave and she gouged her eyeball real bad on a rock. Had a piece of her lens peeled up and the next morning the whole eye was clouded and filmed over. I removed the carbon from my filter and treated the whole tank with melafix as directed on the bottle. After 3 repeated treatments (with a day off in between each one to run a bit of carbon and do a 50 percent water change) you cant even tell it happended . I suggest you do the same treatment. If you have not done a good waterchange or tank cleaning for a while go ahead and do it now then add the melafix to the cleaned tank and watch that eye get better. After the treatment clears the eye up be sure to study the eyeball closely once a day for about a week to make sure it doesnt come back, first sign of a hazy eye relapse hit it once more with the melafix . Best to start the treatment right away. Dont over dose, follow directions exactly on bottle. Treatment is the same for several related issues such as eyecloud (from dirty substrate/water), fin rot and several other problems. These are bacterial in nature and melafix works great for me, never had a problem. Sometimes for repeated treatments i will use slightly less than the recommended dose since often the injury or infection is healing by that time and not as bad since i have treated with a full dose at least once all ready.

i agree and should be treated in hospital tank instead of treating your whole tank.if possible.. like cichlid girl said if too hard to catch then you have no choice.... this is why i keep several 10gal, 15 gal tanks... for hospital or quarenteen..usually a fish that is in this position is stressed..someone might be picking on it and caused him to have eye injury...