Recommendation Tire track eel with injured eye

[Bderick67]

Noticed my TT had an injured eye this afternoon, I've moved to a isolated tank and will add a 1/2 dosage of aquarium salt(1/2 tablespoon per 5 gallons).

Any advise? My real question is whether or not the eel can take full dosage of salt or Melafix.

Hard to get pics of this guy, so I took the opportunity to snap a couple. Looks to be 23 to 24".

 

[Bderick67]

Did a search(man having an eel forum is nice) looks like they can handle salt. Gonna up the dosage to one tablespoon per 5 gallons. I'll do 33% water changes and see how it goes.

Any body know regarding dosage of melafix or other meds?

 

[Bderick67]

Hmmm... not much action here is the eel forum LOL

 

[bluehairman]

well seeing as their scaleless its hard to tell. i know some scaleless fish cannot handle quick cure, but i think if there was a real danger it would be stated on the bottle.

 

[Lupin]

I was going to post here yesterday but completely forgot. Oops...Anyway, water changes should always suffice. Can't hurt to add salt but this is not necessary and neither is Melafix.

 

[groovitudedude]

Hope it gets better..... That looks like a really expensive fish.

 

[killerfish]

They can handle both of those just fine i would add a little melafix keep the water as clean as you can and hoepfully it will heal up

 

[Bderick67]

I don't think it's an injury, now the other eye has become cloudy. I'm gonna add melafix and do 50% daily changes. This has worked well with my other fish, but those were definetly injuries.

 

[killerfish]

Hope it heals up

 

[akskirmish]

What are your water params.