MY GSP HAS POP EYE
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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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ILuvMyGSP
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MY GSP HAS POP EYE
I just noticed my puffer has developed pop eye, do I treat it with melafix?
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Re: MY GSP HAS POP EYE
Won't hurt, that's for sure.
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Re: MY GSP HAS POP EYE
Some people have treated it successfully with Melafix, antibiotics such as pennicilin should do the trick.
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Re: MY GSP HAS POP EYE
I've heard good things about Ampicillin in treating popeye
GelTek makes it in the drops too
GelTek makes it in the drops too
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Re: MY GSP HAS POP EYE
well i was just making sure it was the right stuff to fix it...marksrush wrote:Won't hurt, that's for sure.
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Re: MY GSP HAS POP EYE
Stick with good water quality & Melafix. You don't want to crash the biological filtration.
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: MY GSP HAS POP EYE
I don't know if this is relevant, but the saltwater fish at the store where I work have gotten pop eye now and again. I only ever saved one, and I did it by cutting the membrane behind the eye(which was easily reached because of the swelling) with a tiny slit using a sharp razor, and letting the infection out. Puss and some actual bubbles of bacterial waste gasses came out, and the fish began eating again and acting normally the next day.
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Tank water yellow/green after Maracyn-Two?
My GSP has popeye, I treated for 4-5 days so far with Maracyn-Two (it's looking much better), the water has been fine but all of a sudden today when my husband put the dose in, the water turned really yellow/green... is this ok or should we do a water change now and retreat?
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Re: MY GSP HAS POP EYE
ahhh oh man thats crazy, i have been treating with maracyn-two and it has gotten a lot better, but now my waters a weird green/yellow color.. not sure whats going on.Nick wrote:I don't know if this is relevant, but the saltwater fish at the store where I work have gotten pop eye now and again. I only ever saved one, and I did it by cutting the membrane behind the eye(which was easily reached because of the swelling) with a tiny slit using a sharp razor, and letting the infection out. Puss and some actual bubbles of bacterial waste gasses came out, and the fish began eating again and acting normally the next day.
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Re: Tank water yellow/green after Maracyn-Two?
Many medications make the water change color and can even permanently die your silicone. Usually its purple/blue though, I haven't experienced yellow myself.
Most of us do not like to use medications like this on puffers, they are very sensitive to chemicals because they have no scales.. they absorb everything through their skin very easily.
Do you know what's actually wrong with the puffer? Popeye is not a condition, its a side effect of the fish being sick, so you need to treat what is causing the fish to be sick in the first place. That might be a cycling tank, it might be a parasite.. do you know what all your levels are, etc?
Most of us do not like to use medications like this on puffers, they are very sensitive to chemicals because they have no scales.. they absorb everything through their skin very easily.
Do you know what's actually wrong with the puffer? Popeye is not a condition, its a side effect of the fish being sick, so you need to treat what is causing the fish to be sick in the first place. That might be a cycling tank, it might be a parasite.. do you know what all your levels are, etc?
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Re: Tank water yellow/green after Maracyn-Two?
My ammonia, and Nitrite are fine, the only other thing I've read about that could cause it if it's not bacterial is to many bubbles in the water from my power head. Do you think that could cause it.
It seems a lot better since we've started treating it
It seems a lot better since we've started treating it
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Re: MY GSP HAS POP EYE
Did you try just using Melafix 1st?
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: Tank water yellow/green after Maracyn-Two?
i tested my nitrites again and they were really high (about .50- 1), so we did a water change again and the waters much clearer now.
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Re: Tank water yellow/green after Maracyn-Two?
Amm. and nitrites should always be 0. Some people will say my water is fine when their amm. is .25-.50 and nitrites are under .50. If that's the case then "no" the water is not fine. Not trying to be mean but I see it all the time. 
Fine is a bad word here.
We need exact numbers to help you. I'm glad you tested it again and posted the numbers. How is your ammonia? Is it 0? If you have nitrites showing your tank may be going through a mini cycle. Have you done what pufferpunk asked and tried Melafix before using Maracyn-two?
Fine is a bad word here.
We need exact numbers to help you. I'm glad you tested it again and posted the numbers. How is your ammonia? Is it 0? If you have nitrites showing your tank may be going through a mini cycle. Have you done what pufferpunk asked and tried Melafix before using Maracyn-two?Need to know what kind of puffer you have? Click on Puffer ID.....Puffer ID: ug.php/v/PufferPedia/
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Re: Tank water yellow/green after Maracyn-Two?
Sounds like the meds may have crashed your biofiter. Imagine that. Get on those water changes, you're going to be doing lots of them...