I was lucky enough to get ahold of 2 wild columbian orino's from another user, I believe the one is blind due to eye damage while in the other users care. The other seems completely normal, but neither one is eating feeders or anything. I've done two treatments of the same meds as required for treatment of the eye's, raised the water temp up to 88 and added the proper amount of salt for desease treatment as well. The owner says that the eye damage was due to fighting, but it's both eye's on the one, and alittle cloudy around the globe, but inside its looks like the eye is almost crushed. The other eye has a globe on it, but cloud inside. I'm hoping that this wasn't caused by a lack of water quality. The blind one, when a feeder swims by turns quick like it wants to hit it, but then gives up because I dont think he can see it, he's picking up the motion with it's lateral line. It's been 5 days since I've had them. Any advice would be much appreciated.
Two Columbian Orino's HELP !!!
- Thread starter jimmie1974
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blind one just hit a small goldfish, had it, tried to turn it inside its mouth and spit it out. Good sign, I'm going to try and pick up some smaller feeders tomorrow, but the warm tank temps keep killing them. Both orinos are about 4.5-5".
Keep the tank at 86 even normally, pbass LOVE that hot water. Maybe the former member trained it off of live food. Try live bloodworms if guppies don't work.
Dropped water temp slowly to 83-84, droped in a mix of rosies and small goldfish. The healthy orino ate 2 rosies, and I had a successful forcefeed on the blind one with him taking 2 rosies down. He's definitely blind, he didn't see the net coming. I neted him/her, keet her in the water at all times on the surface, grabbed up one small rosie, slowly lifted the orino head up out of water. As he gasped alittle I got the rosie in, help the bottom jaw closed until he splashed which forces the fish to inhale for air, Bam, down the rosie went. Did this one more time after 5 minutes, and was successful.
