The last couple of weeks I noticed that Puff, my GSP, has been having a hard time finding his food, and I've been having to hand feed him. I have to hold the shrimp right up to his mouth before he realizes that food is right in front of him and then he'll latch on. Well today I noticed that one of Puffs eyes is cloudy! I believe he's turning blind, or is blind. What causes cloudy eye, and does it mean he's blind? How can I help him?
Water parameters are: 0 Amm 0 Nitrate 0 NitrIte S.G = 1.014
Please help!
Oh no, I think Puff might be turning blind!
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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.
Read this before posting!!
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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Re: Oh no, I think Puff might be turning blind!
If it's just one eye then it's probally an injury from a rock or decor. Annabelle had 1 cloudy eye. I treated her tank with melafix and pimafix, it took about 5-6 days but the eye finally cleared.
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Re: Oh no, I think Puff might be turning blind!
So I should treat with either Melafix or Pimafix? Thanks for the speedy reply btw 
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Re: Oh no, I think Puff might be turning blind!
You can use melafix. 
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Re: Oh no, I think Puff might be turning blind!
Great! I'm going out right now to get some... thanks again! 
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Re: Oh no, I think Puff might be turning blind!
Should I add a dose everyday, as it says on the bottle?
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Re: Oh no, I think Puff might be turning blind!
Yes, that's what I did. After 5 days (I think) do a 50% water change, then add carbon in your filter to get the rest of the meds out. The eye should clear up in 3-5 days. Keep us posted.
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Re: Oh no, I think Puff might be turning blind!
Nitrate of 0 is very rare. What test kit are you using?
You are getting sleepy... you only hear the sound of my voice... you must do water changes... water changes... water changes... water changes...
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Re: Oh no, I think Puff might be turning blind!
Yea the stuff that edmlfc said should work. My 12 gallon has zero everything but pH is like 7-7.5
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SpottedPuffergirl
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Re: Oh no, I think Puff might be turning blind!
Jungle nitrite and nitrate strips. I really do need to invest in the drop kind..... the color on the strips will barely show up.Pufferpunk wrote:Nitrate of 0 is very rare. What test kit are you using?
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Re: Oh no, I think Puff might be turning blind!
the drip kit in the long term is a lot cheaper than those strips
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Re: Oh no, I think Puff might be turning blind!
Puff's eye is all better now! it cleared up after only 2 days of melafix! I treated him for 5 days just to make sure though and did a 50% water change today and added the carbon filter cartilage back in today. There's a new problem now though, please see my new topic!
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Re: Oh no, I think Puff might be turning blind!
Yeah! At least his eye is better.
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