angel with popeye

[kaiboshi]

I picked up a cream angel a couple of weeks ago and threw him in my QT setup. I treated one round of prazipro. During treatment the angel was, of course, shimmying and shaking and flashing. A day or two after the initial dosage the angel started to develop unilateral popeye.

Since the popeye was only on one side I figured it was from an injury that occured while flashing against things in the QT tank, though I can't figure out how PVC fittings are that sharp. Anyway, since it was likely from an injury and not another type of infection or ailment I decided to keep an eye on it and hope that the swelling would go down.

The swelling got worse. After another few days I noticed a small pink lump within the bubble of the swolen eye so I went out and picked up some furan 2. I began dosing the antibiotic but to no avail. Today will be the 4th dose of the furan 2 but the pink lump has greatly increased in size.

I'm at a bit of a loss as to what to course of action I should take now. Does anyone have any suggestions?

 

[b0bab0ey]

I picked up a cream angel a couple of weeks ago and threw him in my QT setup. I treated one round of prazipro. During treatment the angel was, of course, shimmying and shaking and flashing. A day or two after the initial dosage the angel started to develop unilateral popeye.

Since the popeye was only on one side I figured it was from an injury that occured while flashing against things in the QT tank, though I can't figure out how PVC fittings are that sharp. Anyway, since it was likely from an injury and not another type of infection or ailment I decided to keep an eye on it and hope that the swelling would go down.

The swelling got worse. After another few days I noticed a small pink lump within the bubble of the swolen eye so I went out and picked up some furan 2. I began dosing the antibiotic but to no avail. Today will be the 4th dose of the furan 2 but the pink lump has greatly increased in size.

I'm at a bit of a loss as to what to course of action I should take now. Does anyone have any suggestions?

Try epsom salt (1 tablespoon per 5 gallons of aquarium water). If it's an eye injury that should at least help with the swelling. Not sure about the pink lump.

 

[cngreg]

Are you certain you treated the right dose of prazi? Unilateral eye ulcer often results from irritation from a flatworm. Look up pictures of neobenedenia and see if that looks like the lumps on your fishes eye. You can also use copper (cupramine I like) or formalin( I like paraguard) to treat this parasite. Otherwise I agree you may be up against a bacterial infection from an injury glancing. I like to try the gram negative antibiotics first if I'm going to shotgun external lesions on fish. Aminoglycosides like kanamycin and gentamycin are good options.

 

[marc price]

Are you certain you treated the right dose of prazi? Unilateral eye ulcer often results from irritation from a flatworm. Look up pictures of neobenedenia and see if that looks like the lumps on your fishes eye. You can also use copper (cupramine I like) or formalin( I like paraguard) to treat this parasite.

apparently praziquantel is a recommended treatment therefore and based on the given timeline without actually seeing the fish, i'm inclined to rule out the bugger - http://fishparasite.fs.a.u-tokyo.ac.jp/Neobenedenia-girellae/Neobenedenia-girellae-eng.html reference "other information".