Could Flatworm Exit cause popeye?

[Reeferhead]

First off, is this popeye?


Jawfish popeye by nickgrant79, on Flickr

If it is, could a heavy dose (like say 3 times what's recommended) of Flatworm exit cause this? I have 4 more yellow headed jawfish in the tank, none show any similar symptoms. The affected fish is eating but is clearly having a few problems focusing in on food.

I treated the tank with a heavy dose of flatworm exit on Sunday to take out just a few remaining, highly tolerant buggers, that just wouldn't die at normal dosage. The fish did not show symptoms until today. I did lose a few snails to the treatment as well.

Should I treat or remove the fish? Is there any risk of the infection spreading to my other fish?

TIA

 

[ccloveraz]

Not sure about your fish as it's the only one showing symptoms.

I can say that I have used flatworm exit twice, the first time I used the recommended dosage and it worked ok.
The second time I used a bit more than was suggested and all of my fishes fins began to disintigrate. I had a canary blenny whos fins were almost completely gone and it died within a day or two as a result. A large maroon clown had the fin problem and a weird rash on its forehead also.

So yes, IMO the flatworm exit could very well have caused your problem.

I will never use it again.