Need Help

[agranoff]

My royal gramma of 2 years stopped eating last week and hasn't come out of its cave since. I can now see one eye is bulging out. Can anything be done to help the fish? I am not sure whats causing this. I highly doubt I can catch it to put into a quartine tank and I have a tank with inverts / coral so I can't medicate the tank.

Thanks

 

[jbvdhp]

Sounds like trauma to the eye and probably will resolve on its own.


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[agranoff]

My Royal Gramma is still having issues. It will just lay on the bottom of the tank for 3-4 days, it has trouble swimming and then after a few days its fine again and begins eating again. Then a few days later its back to laying on the bottom. . The first two times it also had popeye but this time the eye is not bulging. This has been going on for 2 months now - the laying on bottom has happened 3 times. What can I do?

 

[kilroy217]

you have to try and catch the fish and separate it so that you can treat with antibiotics. popeye is usually indicative of a bacterial infection. since this has been going on so long, I suggest doing it as quickly as possible before the fish dies.