How can I cure drop eye?
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I've never heard of a cure. I have seen some discuss surgery as an option, but obviously that's expensive and still may not work. If there is a cure, I'd be glad to hear it.
+1 never heard of a cure only ways to help prevent it , like floating plants or even heard of people using a ball that floats anything to try attract the eyes attention upwards
The only thing I've ever heard of is to try and make them look up. Like suggested above some floating plastic plants that they will scan for food or floating ping pong balls. If you can float plastic plants get somthing like goast shrimp or neon tetras to use it for shelter & populate it to give some prey movement that will attract the Aro so it looks up. It may work depending how severe the drop eye is.
Drop comes from muscle gettin to relax bcuz in our aquarium they look down for food
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I used to raise aros and find that about 90% of aros that get drop-eye are the silvers. Rarely do Asian, and Jardini's get this (but I did see a big jardini that has drop-eye a couple of weeks ago). Also, I don't know of anyone reporting aros in the wild getting drop-eye. There are many theories, fatty foods, poor water quality, tank too small etc... The only way I've seen drop-eye fixed was on a video I saw. It was an Asian aro with drop-eye and they did surgery on it. They cut a little tissue at the top of the eye away and stitched the eye back up. I don't know if people do the surgery with silvers since they are pretty cheap to buy and can be found at many LFS. I had a beautiful 24 inch silver and tried everything to prevent it. I used ping pong balls, floating toys and I actually used one of those worm-blowers found at fishing stores and forced air into the nightcrawlers I was feeding it so the worms can float. Still got drop-eye but it still was a great looking fish.
Maybe you should use the search function. Drop-eye is something that has plagued by a lot of silvers and you will find many theories. One of the theories I don't believe is that aros get drop-eye from looking for food that is on the bottom. Aros in the wild eat many things and a lot are from the bottom but they don't have drop-eye. I don't know if there is a main reason silvers get drop-eye but I don't think it's from eating food from the bottom. Jardiini's and Asian aros also eat from the bottom but I can count on one hand how many of those that have drop-eye. One thing I am pretty sure about is that aros get drop-eye from eating off the bottom.
Silvers will almost always get it there is no natural cure there is only theory's and no actual truthfully found cure my silver has drop eye in only one eye and I noticed that since I got him on hikari jumbo carnisticks that float it has slightly improved but like I said ther is no certain or absolute cure it's very likely to happen and never be cured sorry for the bad news
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