HELP Swollen Eye On Female Crosshatch!!

[triggerfreak]

My female crosshatch has a swollen eye and it seems to be getting worse.She was not picked on and all tank parmaeters are perfect except nitrate and phosphate.She is now in a 55 quarantine tank.I took her out of my 210 about a month ago when i noticed the problem.She cannot see out of the eye at all and she will only eat if the food is sprayed into her mouth.The eye is not cloudy just protruded from her.Has anyone seen this before and if so what and how to treat it.

 

[khaosinc]

looks like popeye... hopefully someone can chime in with their treatment of it...

 

[FishTruck]

Tagging along...

My Red Tail Trigger just woke up today with TWO eyes that look like that! He apperas to be blind and is not eating. NOT GOOD. He appeared to be 100% healthy last night.

 

[triggerfreak]

Well i ended up popping the air bubble behind her eye and pushing it back in.I was told that there is a infection behind the eye causing a gas build up.And now i am doing a series of baths with a sechem product called Kanaplex.

 

[FishTruck]

You used a needle?

What drained out when you popped the white part? A gas bubble?

 

[triggerfreak]

Yes i used a needle and sterlized it first.poped the gas part of the eye that looked like a air bubble and then pushed the eye back in the socket as i poped the air bubbles.I have had to do this twics as if filled back up after the first time.

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=15719523#post15719523 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by FishTruck
You used a needle?

What drained out when you popped the white part? A gas bubble?

 

[FishTruck]

Sounds like the right thing for your fish.

Mine is dead this a.m. I don't think he had an eye problem... I think this was a sign of a more catastrophic event. He may have eaten too much the other night... other than that I have no clue.

Better luck to you.

 

[NexDog]

Well i ended up popping the air bubble behind her eye and pushing it back in.I was told that there is a infection behind the eye causing a gas build up.And now i am doing a series of baths with a sechem product called Kanaplex.

I have a Bird Wrasse in QT that has had a bubble in each eye for 4 weeks. It's almost gone in one eye (just a tiny bit over the pupil but not the whole eye). The bubble in the other eye is massive. It looks like air to me. Completely clear. The eye is not swollen or distended - it's just a very thin layer covering the eye that is swollen up with this air bubble. I think I'm going to needle it since it's not the eye itself.

 

[JHemdal]

Folks,

There is another issue with exopthalmia (popeye) and that is when it is caused by supersaturation or mechanical damage to the fish. If you see discrete silvery air bubbles in the fish's eye it is positively from one of those two causes. If you see one eye swollen with no redness, it is probably mechancial damage. Bateria is usually only involved with fish that have two equally, but minimally to moderately swollen eyes with much redness.
The treatment for mechanical damage is time, supersaturation requires that the failed life support equipment that caused it is found and rectified (usually an air leak on the suction side of the pump).

Jay