POP EYE HELP

Hi noticed last night my female blue ram has pop eye on her right eye.
At first I though it was from fighting as she spawned on saturday night and gets quite agressive.
I have not got a quarantine tank to put her in . And would have te dost to buy one till the ned of the week

I am looking for some advise on how best to treat her.And if this is reversable,

this fish has never had any previous health issues and is still also spawning . A w/c took place on Thrusday evening and all water perams are fine .

Can this be passed on to other fish ????

Bacterial I'd guess, you need to get some anti-bacterial medicated food, best if you can get meds into the system via mouth. The fish probably hurt it's eye in defending a spawn site or in courtship. Popeye is more a reaction to fluid build-up behind the eye.

Kev.

thanks mate . I take it that would be fine to feed to all the fish ?
Have you a name of the food I could use ??

Thanks once agian for your help

Contact some of the Sponsors, Garlic, for some reason, alien to a Fish's diet, is an Immune enhancer, it seems to aid in the Fish's immunity or ability to fight attacks by various Pathogens, try to ALWAYS include food with added Garlic in it.

From a cost standpoint, it is always economical to use a Quarantine Tank if you can as the meds need to get to the Fish in question and if the affliction is causing the patient to be slow or disinterested he/she may not actually manage to eat any.

This quote is taken from a website called Flippers and Fins.net
www.flippersandfins.net/pop-eye.htm

The good news is that pop-eye is not often fatal, especially if given proper treatment. Pop-eye will sometimes even go away on its’ own with no treatment. As pop-eye is generally not very contagious, one fish expert, Dr. Chris Andrews, recommends observing your fish with pop-eye, while left in the main tank, to see if he gets better on his own or not. If the other previously healthy fish in the tank begin to get pop-eye, he then recommends isolation and treatment of the affected fish. I would advise that you search carefully for the cause of the pop-eye as discussed in this article and treat accordingly. If you cannot figure out the cause, then I recommend treatment with either Kanacyn or Maracyn-Two (if outside the USA use Waterlife's Myxazin or Interpet's #9 Anti Internal Bacteria), for a possible bacterial infection, in a separate hospital tank. Treating in a hospital tank allows you to isolate the sick fish from the healthy others and medicating a smaller tank means lower medication costs.

Even with proper treatment, your fish may be left with a grotesque eye and fish have even been known to “lose” the eye, that is, the eye becomes detached from its’ socket. Losing an eye is not necessarily traumatic for a fish. Fish can live a relatively normal life with just one eye, except that they can have problems with depth perception, that is, knowing how close or how far things are away from them. This can make swimming and eating a bit of a challenge. A fish that is blinded in one eye should not be destroyed, as they most often can live out a healthy and full life!

Thanks mate ,

it is not nearly as bad as any in the pictures on the link and unless you look closley you would not see it .
She is one of my favorites and has a great personality so that last thing I would want is to euthinise her , she is the first to the glass when the lights are turned on or i enter the room .

I will try the garlic in the food . She is still active though and is one of the matriarchs of the tank , she is still protecting her territory and keeping the others in check . She has also had no problems with eating . I am more concered if it spreads or is causing her pain