pop-eye

does anyone know the best way to treat pop-eye ,this only appered yesterday and the fish has stopped eatin i have him in a hospital tank,have looked on the net for treatments but not very helpfull,.

any advise would be helpfull

thanks

Hi there what kind of fish is it?? Is it new or has it been there a long time.

Pop Eye is caused by a similar bacterial infection that causes Dropsy, very common killer in goldfish but I rarely see it in Cichlids. It's usually a secondary illness, ie the outward manifestation of and internal illness and the number one cause is poor water quality. Have you made any recent changes to your set up that may have adversly affected conditions such as adding several new fish or overcleaning your tank?

Fortunatly it's easy to cure this illness provided it's caught early. The interpet "anti internal bacteria" remedy works well and is available in any decent pet shop that sells fish. also melafix works well but is more expensive, it's made from all natural ingredients and is a bit easier on the fish.

So choose one of these (not the two together!)
Each dosage needs to be carefully calculated, I suggest treating the whole tank to avoid a reoccurance.

If you use any chemical filtraion such as carbon you need to remove it for the duration of the treatment. If you use Organic aqua filtration then you must use Melafix only. Some aquarium salt may help but it's benifits are disputed when it comes to cichlids esp American cichlids as they don't like salts.

A pic of the fish would help make a better judgement.

Also remember that after treating the fish it is important to get to the root cause and fix it. usually it's poor water quality.

Make sure it's the correct diagnosis also, as an injured eye can occur due to fighting amongst cichlids and can take the appearance of cloudy eye and be confused with something more sinister like pop eye.

Best of luck hope this helped!

Trimax wrote:

Hi there what kind of fish is it?? Is it new or has it been there a long time.

Pop Eye is caused by the same bacterial infection that causes Dropsy, very common killer in goldfish but I rarely see it in Cichlids. It's usually a secondary illness, ie the outward manifestation of and internal illness and the number one cause is poor water quality. Have you made any recent changes to your set up that may have adversly affected conditions such as adding several new fish or overcleaning your tank?

Fortunatly it's easy to cure this illness provided it's caught early. The interpet "anti internal bacteria" remedy works well and is available in any decent pet shop that sells fish. also melafix works well but is more expensive, it's made from all natural ingredients and is a bit easier on the fish.

So choose one of these (not the two together!)
Each dosage needs to be carefully calculated, I suggest treating the whole tank to avoid a reoccurance.

If you use any chemical filtraion such as carbon you need to remove it for the duration of the treatment. If you use Organic aqua filtration then you must use Melafix only. Some aquarium salt may help but it's benifits are disputed when it comes to cichlids esp American cichlids as they don't like salts.

A pic of the fish would help make a better judgement.

Also remember that after treating the fish it is important to get to the root cause and fix it. usually it's poor water quality.




Hello allan you raised a curious point on your first long paragragh re overcleaning your tank, any chance you can elaborate that and it's causes to dropsy and popeye?

Make sure it's the correct diagnosis also, as an injured eye can occur due to fighting amongst cichlids and can take the appearance of cloudy eye and be confused with something more sinister like pop eye.

Best of luck hope this helped!

Sorry mods my post got mixed with jim's and I meant to ask jim rather than allan

Any update on the fish Faraday?

Hi Ian what were you gonna ask me?

hello,he still the same doesnt seem to be getting any better or any worse ,have treated the main tank he was in and the hospital tank he is in now,.water conditions were ok as i do regular water changes and tests ,not much more i can realy do is just to keep treating and hope for the best ,.this is the worst part of fish keeping i hate getting sick fish and losing them,.

thanks for your help

sorry to hear that, what treatment are you using?

interpet "anti internal bacteria, that u advised i had some already .u never no he mite pull through

Trimax wrote:

Pop Eye is caused by the same bacterial infection that causes Dropsy, very common killer in goldfish but I rarely see it in Cichlids. It's usually a secondary illness, ie the outward manifestation of and internal illness and the number one cause is poor water quality. !

Cloady eye is poor water quality or too low temp (22C), by just increasing the temp and improving water quality will cure this, pop eye is more common in western atlantic angles, e.g queen or blue angle, if they get it they need real antibiotics, not anti bacterial meds (don't really have anti biotics in them.) The easiest way to get antibiotics is bring them back from a chemist in Spain or any pet store in the U.S.

www.metacafe.com/watch/1356468/classical_cartoon_popeye

thanks for the link sean very helpfull.

Sean wrote:

Trimax wrote:

Pop Eye is caused by the same bacterial infection that causes Dropsy, very common killer in goldfish but I rarely see it in Cichlids. It's usually a secondary illness, ie the outward manifestation of and internal illness and the number one cause is poor water quality. !

Cloady eye is poor water quality or too low temp (22C), by just increasing the temp and improving water quality will cure this, pop eye is more common in western atlantic angles, e.g queen or blue angle, if they get it they need real antibiotics, not anti bacterial meds (don't really have anti biotics in them.) The easiest way to get antibiotics is bring them back from a chemist in Spain or any pet store in the U.S.

www.metacafe.com/watch/1356468/classical_cartoon_popeye

Well I doubt he's gonna go to Spain for meds! thanks for posting a cartoon and dismissing my genuine attempt to help someone. I do actually know that cichlid popeye CAN be cured by a fishes own immune system with something like melafix and allot of tlc to help. in the absence of availability of drugs like marycyn/marycyn2 in Ireland I am giving pragmatic advice . I have seen popeye in cichlids before and both treatments I mentioned worked. Who said anything about angelfish anyway? Of course a broad range antibody would be better but as I said I am being pragmatic here. What this fish needs is Excellent water quality and minimum stressers, ie peace and quiet and preferably not a brightly lit tank. Diet should be taken into consideration as vitamin A deficiency is a common cause of issues like this and an antibacterial remedy that is actually available in this country ie melafix/anti internal bacteria.

Also and even better is Azoo's Cichlasoma magic treater available from petshoponline.ie