Bacterial Brain Damage

[ca1ore]

Ok, here's a new one for me ....

Bought a couple of dwarf angels, put them in QT. All looked fine. Went on a business trip and when I returned both looked very poorly. Had a whitish cast to the fins (not velvet) and cloudy eyes. Appeared to be bacterial to me, so I treated with Fish Flox. One fish did not survive, the other has appeared to recover, though lost one eye. But it's acting weird and swims a bit erratically (not a swim bladder problem though). It eats, though not as easily as before given the vision problem.

Any thoughts?

 

[scuzy]

Uronema? It eats away at the fish.


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[ca1ore]

I don't think so. Fish looked to have recovered with antibiotic, plus I've had anthias with uronema before and it looks quite different.

 

[JustinM]

Are you sure it just wasn’t an infection in the eye? I could see having one eye causing problems with swimming. It’s odd it was done to both fish though??

Is fish flox cipro?

 

[ca1ore]

Positive, both Angels had dual cloudy eyes and that 'clamped' fins look. All happened over the course of a few days - had to be while I was away otherwise I'd have caught it in time. One fish was in much worse shape. It's odd because I have had fish lose an eye to a bad case of popeye before and they largely seem unaffected. This one just seems a bit disoriented, for lack of a better word.

And, yes, fish flox is cipro.