Porcipine Puffer fish with cloudy eyes! what wrong!?

[Friends75helper]

in my friends 40 gallon Saltwater tank theres a 9 inch puffer and just today he has cloudy eyes! I know thats not good. The tank has be running for maybe 2 months and the puffers been in there for 2-3 weeks at the most.
What could be the problem?

 

[TerryB]

Puffer can appear to have cloudy eyes and that can be normal for them. If this is something new and getting worse then suspect ich or brooklynella with a possible secondary bacterial infection. Try to hold the fish against the glass with a net and look closely at the eye with a magnifying glass. Look carefully for a parasite attached to the eye. Could be an eye fluke.

Terry B

 

[Friends75helper]

he was put on medication and he has REALLY cloudy eyes. I heard it was bacterial infection.

 

[TerryB]

It could be a bacterial infection, but what caused that? Usually bacterial eye infections go hand in hand with a parasite infection such as ich, velvet or brooklynella. What medication are you using?

Terry B

 

[Friends75helper]

Well 2 days ago it died. sadly :[

just from overall stress, what the medication was doing. It was taking off the slime coat.