Pepsi hurt his eye :(

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Pepsi hurt his eye :(

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I was changing his water yesterday, had to take out the decorations to wash em up because we are having a rather nasty Cyanno issue (Gonna get Red Slime remover soon) well I guess he freaked out so bad because he had a naked tank that he injured his eye.

Amm: 0 Nitrite: 0 Nitrate <5 SG 1.011

Just Pepsi the GSP

%50 WC yesterday, washed plastic plant decorations to lower the Cyanno, and dumped some flourish Excell in as a preliminary kill it off a bit measure as I read on BCAquaria's forums.

I mixed the salt in with a Tetra Power filter then aged the water for 24-48hrs before

Looks like he scratched his Cornea. I feel so awful...I need to go get some Melafix..this is one of those occasions I wish I had more than my permit right now :(

I can't take a picture because he's feeling rather sorry for himself, and I wouldn't blame him. He's also very mad at me.

I'll prep another %50 WC to keep the pollutants down. I'll tell the man to go pick up some melafix tonight, that it can't wait. Hopefully we can go and I can price the live rock and sand so we have time to save up for it.
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Re: Pepsi hurt his eye :(

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Anyway, since he's in an SG of 1.011 should I get the Marine Melafix or stay with the fresh water stuff?
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Re: Pepsi hurt his eye :(

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He's still curled up on the bottom of the tank all black and not right....I have the lights off....haven't been able to get melafix yet...
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Re: Pepsi hurt his eye :(

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Aww, I hope he gets better fast. I believe you use the FW melafix. I'd be very careful not to scare him at all.
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Re: Pepsi hurt his eye :(

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He's doing better today, his eye has healed up even without the melafix! We're still picking some up on Sat though. I think his fast healing has to do with the pristine water (0amm 0Nitrite and less than 5 nitrates)

He was his usual enthusiastic wriggly self at the front of the tank this morning, and he had a piece of smashed up clam for breakky.

despite the cyanno issue >.<
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Re: Pepsi hurt his eye :(

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Pandora114 wrote:He's doing better today, his eye has healed up even without the melafix! We're still picking some up on Sat though. I think his fast healing has to do with the pristine water (0amm 0Nitrite and less than 5 nitrates)

He was his usual enthusiastic wriggly self at the front of the tank this morning, and he had a piece of smashed up clam for breakky.

despite the cyanno issue >.<
Corneal/eye tissue is one of the fastest healing tissues in most creatures. On a human corneal abrasions and lacerations are nearly healed within 24 hours....
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Re: Pepsi hurt his eye :(

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and it would probably heal much faster in a fish since they don't have any eyelids.
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Re: Pepsi hurt his eye :(

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Marine Melafix is to keep skimmers from bubbling over. You don't need it unless you have a skimmer.

Poor little guy. I can sympathize on the permit thing. I remember needing Prime so freaking bad!
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Re: Pepsi hurt his eye :(

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Consider yourself lucky, when Shakespeare was in my care for but a few months, he scratched one of his eyes - the resulting infection scarred the cornea, he's blind in that eye. He seems to get on just fine with his blind side though.
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Re: Pepsi hurt his eye :(

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I do. I have some melafix right here for him though. in case it happens again. I need to prep a water change for him soon. %50 each week! he just got done eating a piece of smashed clam.
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