dogface puffer...help diagnosing disease

[aaren92]

Little backstory: When I first got my dogface puffer about 1 year ago, about a month later my tank was exposed to an extremely bad case of Marine Ick. I treated the entire tank, as I had no invertebrates or coral. I also used a UV light, and before I knew it the infection was gone.

Recently upgraded my tank to a 100 gallon, and I have the same fish, Yellow Tang, 2 Occelaris Clowns, and a Diamond Goby. However, I recently took out my Flame Hawk because he got extremely aggressive. I also have a Frogspawn that is thriving.

Long story short, what is happening to my dogface now seems different than the Ick I had before. He is lethargic and just hides all day, however he still eats like a pig. The main problem is that his eye is completely clouded over. Just happened today, but has not gotten any better so far. My salt level is 1.022, pH at 8.2, Nitrites, Ammonia, and Nitrates all zero.

The tricky thing is, no other fish are acting strangely. I am skeptical to deem it Ick so suddenly, because it seems completely different than it was 1 year ago. Here is a picture of my puffer's eye. Sorry in advance for the poor camera quality.

 

[sandwi54]

I can see the cloudy eye in the picture. cloudy eye has a lot of causes and is difficult to pinpoint. However, most of the time it caused by infections, which is usually due to stress (and stress is caused by many different things which you have to figure out).

since you don't see and have not seen parasitic infections, we can rule that out. do you notice any fish harassing the puffer? Also, what has the puffer been eating? please list all of the food.

 

[aaren92]

When u said food a lot of things pieced together in my mind!!

I have never once fed him real shrimp. He eats Rod's Original mix and Rod's predator mix (sometimes).

he also is known to eat the algae sheets I put up for the tang.

However, the other day I adopted an anemone in my 30 gallon, and I have been feeding it shrimp. I gave the puffer a few as well and he loved them.

That is the only new thing he has been eating.