Longhorn Cowfish Needs Your Help

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Since this board has been up, we have found there are several questions that routinely get asked in order to help diagnose problems. If you can have that information to begin with in your post, we'll be able to help right away (if we can!) without having to wait for you to post the info we need.

1) Your water parameters - pH, Ammonia, Nitrite, Nitrates and salinity (if appropriate). This is by far the most important information you can provide! Do not answer this with "Fine" "Perfect" "ok", that tells us nothing. We need hard numbers.

2) Tank size and a list of ALL inhabitants. Include algae eaters, plecos, everything. We need to know what you have and how big the tank is.

3) Feeding, water change schedule and a list of all products you are using or have added to the tank (examples: Cycle, Amquel, salt, etc)

4) What changes you've made in the tank in the last week or so. Sometimes its the little things that make all the difference.

5) How long the aquarium has been set up, and how did you cycle it? If you don't know what cycling is read this: Fishless Cycling Article and familiarize yourself with all the information. Yes. All of it.

We want to help, and providing this information will go a LONG way to getting a diagnosis and hopeful cure that much faster.

While you wait for assistance:
One of the easiest and best ways to help your fish feel better is clean water! If you are already on a regular water change schedule (50% weekly is recommended) a good step to making your fish more comfortable while waiting for diagnosis/suggestions is to do a large water change immediately. Feel free to repeat daily or as often as you can, clean water is always a good thing! Use of Amquel or Prime as a dechlor may help with any ammonia or nitrite issues, and is highly recommended.

Note - if you do not normally do large water changes, doing a sudden, large water change could shock your fish by suddenly changing their established water chemistry. Clean water is still your first goal, so in this case, do several smaller (10%) water changes over the next day or two before starting any large ones.
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SeaboyHPT
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Longhorn Cowfish Needs Your Help

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OK, so I have a Long Horn Cowfish, not exactly a puffer but maybe you guys can help. I have had him a long time, about 12 years and he has lived in about 3 different tanks. Long story short, he is having eye problems and I cant figure out what it even is. First thought was popeye, but its not from what I can tell. Woke up one day about 2 weeks ago and the inside of his eye, under the outer lens looks like its drooping over the inner lens. Almost like he has an inner eyelid, which they do not. I posted this weeks ago on 3 other boards and no a single response. I am hoping someone here has seen this before or can even guess with is going on. Parasites? Infection? Any ideas welcome, this guy is more then a fish to me, has a lot of personalty, really need some help. Thanks in advance.

PH 7.5
Ammonia 0.0
Nitrite 0.0
Nitrates 40 ppm
Alkalinity 180
Salinity 0.026
Size 55 Gallon
Inhabitants Cowfish, Diamond Sand Goby, Peppermint Shrimp, 8 Nasarius Snails
Feeding Schedule 2X per day, Frozen PE Mysis, clams and Algae (on occasion) Supplement Vibrance (Ocean Rider)
Aquarium Age 3 years, water changes about every 2 weeks, has sump with UV and protein skimmer, chiller and heater.

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Sorry I can't help, but he is very cute! I love seeing them in stores :) hope someone else can help
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Post by Iliveinazoo »

Not really sure but it looks like physical damage as though he has run into something, does it look like anything is wedged there? If not it could just right itself over time?
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