Swollen Cloudy Eyes

StoneRhino

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My father bought me a couple of Dispar Anthias for my 175 reef. He added them to my aquarium when I was at work without a quarantine. They are very small less than 1" each and there is three of them. On day 1 one of them started to get cloudy eyes. On day 2 they were swollen and cloudy. Then the worst thing happened 6 of my other very healthy anthias that have been with me for 2 years eyes started to go cloudy. They are all still eating and swimming as normal. The first fish that showed the cloudy eyes is on the bottom of the tank breathing heavily his eyes look solid white and are swollen.
Any of the other 6 fish 3 female lyretails and 3 female bartletts eyes are swollen but still look ok and are mildly cloudy. All water parameters are great. I did a 25% water change and replaced my carbon in my reactor just to be safe.
My friend had some kanamycn powder I have been mixing with there dry food in case its bacterial.

My tank is loaded with over 50 corals there is no way to catch these fish that I know of to treat what do I do? I have never had a sick fish in 14 years in this hobby. It must be contagious.
 
I had something like that hit my tank. Lost three fish to it. Tried kanamycin (don't run carbon while dosing, it will take it out) without any effect. After searching around here, I tried some PraziPro, as I thought I saw what looked like flukes on an eye of the one remaining infected fish (zebra moray in tank shows no signs of infection). Cloudiness has started to go away.
 
I hit the tank with melfix marine with the doseage on the bottle. What ever was on there eyes started to slime off but after about an hour the eyes seem to be back to cloudy. The affected fish are scratching there eyes on the rocks now trying to get whatever is on there eyes off. I wish they would just swim into my net so I could try a med on one in a hospital tank. The cloudyness seems to be getting worse with even more puffyness. What ever is affecting the fish is hitting them fast. No new eyes are involved at this time no new fish are involved.
 
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