Pop Eye

[Luke Schnabel]

My one anthesis just came down with a pop eye today. All my fish were just transferred into QT last weekend to treat ich in my tank. I've been slowly taking my salinity down from 1.026 to 1.009 and after 5 days im at 1.015. I'm going really slow because I have lots of time as my tank sits fallow.

The bubble is crystal clear so no sign of infection just yet, I've read up a bit on the pop eye but all I can seem to find is adding magnesium to the tank. Anyone else have this problem and beat it? Any insight is great. Thanks

 

[Luke Schnabel]

Anyone?

 

[CStrickland]

Have you tried the disease forum?
I'm no expert on that stuff but my chalk bass had pop eye once and I read a little bit about it. As I recall, it can be two different issues: infection or injury. If the pop is a symptom of like a brain infection or whatev, you need to fix that with medicine. My fish was injured, I was lucky enough to actually see him swim face first into a rock. dumb fish. So he only needed to let his eye heal.

IDK why magnesium is recommended. I saw people suggesting it in the form of epsom salt which is something that people use as a soak for swelling and soreness. Not sure if that's the idea with the fish or what. My fish got better before I got around to buying any.

It was pretty sad for a while, he stayed in his cave and fasted for like 4 days. But it never got so puffy that I was worried it was infected, and the eye stayed clear. they can go blind if it gets bad enough though, I hope yours feels better soon

 

[pyithar]

if the popeye is on only one side, it's usually becuase of an injury/scratch to the eye. provide the fish with good food and good water and it will get better on its own after a while. some people suggest epsom salt to reduce swelling to the eye. the ratio is 1 tablespoon per 5 gallons if i remember correctly. i've never tried that so no experience with epsom.

if the eye gets worse or popeye happening on both sides, antibiotics like maracyn-2 or furan-2 will be needed.

just my .02