My fish are going blind

mariusz621

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Hi Everyone,
I am loosing my fish:mad:
It started a few weeks ago when I have noticed that my odonus trigger spent all the time in hiding. When swimming he would bump into everything, but his eyes seemed to be ok.After a week or so my black trigger went blind as well and yesterday I have noticed my panther grouper can't see a thing.
The eyes of blue trigger and panther look perfectly fine, they are not cloudy.
The only fish with some visible damage is the black trigger

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The other fish look perfectly fine.
I have no3 lower than 20, I use rowa po4 remover, activated carbon, and I dose 2 teaspoons of sugar a day. I use strong skimmer aquamedic 5000multi with 100mg of ozone.
I prepare food myself using fresh whole prawns, mussels and squid, which are soaked in large quantities of zeocon.
Any ideas what's wrong?
Thank you.
 
its a disease called pop-eye. its a parasite like ick or in the same family. need to QT any immeadiatly if there are any that dont have symptoms. i hope im wrong. REEF-ON!!!
 
<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=7746611#post7746611 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by nano4brains
its a disease called pop-eye. its a parasite like ick or in the same family. need to QT any immeadiatly if there are any that dont have symptoms. i hope im wrong. REEF-ON!!!

But there is only black trigger with the pop-eye.the rest of the affected fish did not show any damage or abnormality to their eyes, which are clean and clear like in perfectly healthy fish.
I really don't know what to do, and how I can make sure that remaining picasso, yellow tang and puffer won't be affected later.

And what should I do with the blind fish? They don't eat at all:sad1:
 
Popeye is not a parasite,, but it can be caused by parasites..

Please remove this fish to a qt and treat with antibiotics ASAP!!!!! Thats the worse case of Popeye I have EVER seen!!
I like Furan-2 [you can double the dose on this] But if Maracyn2 is all that is available quickly....get it!!!
 
yeah, definitly QT and use antibiotics ASAP. I heard popeye occurs due to poor water conditions. I on't know about the other fish, but I would probably QT all of them.
 
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