Is cloudy lens curable?

[Cohazard]

I saw a really nice GT (appx 4" with nuchal hump! ), but it has a defect in one of it's eyes.

The eye seems okay, but the center lens part is cloudy (inside the eye?).

Will clean water and maybe some salt or meds heal that, or will it always have that cloudy center to it's eye?

TIA for your help

 

[Wolf3101]

My wife and I picked up a large male red devil and an even larger female FH with a tank deal who both had cloudy eyes from poor water quality. The condition was very advanced.

After three weeks of high quality water....a good diet....and a half medicinal level of salt... both fish recovered. The red devil even paired up with a female from another deal and spawned....So I'd have to say that IME....yes it will clear up as long as it really is cloudy eye related to poor water conditions and not some pre-existing damage of some kind.

 

[Cohazard]

My guess is that it's pre existing damage. My female ornate has had cloudy eye from damage from the royal plec, but this is different.

It looks like a white sphere inside the eye, rather than the outer lens of the eye being cloudy.

 

[Mystix212]

I've had this with my 5" female angel every now and then from fights with the male but it usually only lasts a few days. Any pics?

 

[Saggitae]

Sounds like a cateract or blindness. If it doesn't bother the fish then it should be ok IMHO from what you describe, I don't think that it is cureable.

 

[Miles]

I rescued a T. Turgidus puffer that had this issue. It was being kept in brackish water, and it is a pure freshwater fish.. I used good water quality, hand-fed freeze dried krill to him, and dashes of mela/pima fix in very light doses, with light aquarium salt.. Went away in about 2 months, and now he eats and acts like a cichlid

 

[Cohazard]

Cool, thanks for the help everyone. I think I will pick him up and just give it a try. I've been checking him out once a week but it still has the cloudy eye.

I'll have to sell my current big guy though

 

[Cohazard]

I swooped him up from the LFS after work today. He seems healthy and active (a little thin) but otherwise in decent health aside from the eye. He was eating cichlid gold and pellets and swimming around the tank an hour after being introduced.

Here are a couple quick shots I got:

 

[TheMightyOscar]

my barramundi's eye was so cloudy i thought it'd probably rot and fall out..good water and meds cured it in less than a week..

 

[Cohazard]

my barramundi's eye was so cloudy i thought it'd probably rot and fall out..good water and meds cured it in less than a week..

Ah, the Market-Mundi right?

Was the 'inside' of the eye cloudy on your barra? Only a sphere of cloudiness inside of the gt's eye. I will keep the water pristine by bumping up the WC's from weekly 50%, to bi-weekly.

I've got some jungle labs fungus clear under the big tank for cases like this.

I've got my fingers crossed I can save his eye. I keep telling myself that selling my prized saum is worth trying to help out this lil guy.

He's actually really aggressive. More so than any saum I've kept before. I'm watching him attack his reflection right now. My current big one was a PITA because he killed my ebjd and sev, so I hope I don't regret doing this.