What can I do for Cloudy eye? Will Melafix work? I just took notice to Brindy having a cloudy eye this morning.What causes it? What treats it and how much?
Spiny Box Puffer with Cloudy 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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sassiegemstone
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Spiny Box Puffer with Cloudy Eye
What can I do for Cloudy eye? Will Melafix work? I just took notice to Brindy having a cloudy eye this morning.What causes it? What treats it and how much?
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Puffer Queen
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Is it one eye or both?
What are your water parameters? (post specifics please as people vary in what is "normal" or "good")
Any other symptoms? Spots on fins or body? Change in appetite? Breathing faster or slower than before the cloudy eye?
Do NOT add melafix - have seen numerous accounts/reports of saltwater fish "suffocating" with this med.
What are your water parameters? (post specifics please as people vary in what is "normal" or "good")
Any other symptoms? Spots on fins or body? Change in appetite? Breathing faster or slower than before the cloudy eye?
Do NOT add melafix - have seen numerous accounts/reports of saltwater fish "suffocating" with this med.
Kelly
I have experienced fish with extremely labored breathing with the use of Pimafix/ Melafix. I used to be their biggest proponent but I've changed my mind on them at least for saltwater.Puffer Queen wrote: Do NOT add melafix - have seen numerous accounts/reports of saltwater fish "suffocating" with this med.
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sassiegemstone
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Luckily I did not add it. I changed the lighting on the tank and that cloudy eye disappeared.
I was using a blue spectrum marine light and changed it to a natural daylight and that cloudy eye was gone.
Someone how that marine light was doing something to the tank that made her eye look cloudy. Even the water looked cloudy.
Sorry.
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sassiegemstone
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This is what I was seeing in my puffers eyes
Their eyes are golden yellow with iridescent blue-green specks in the pupil.
taken from
http://www.aqua.org/animals_stripedburrfish.html
It was the blue-green specks I was seeing that caused me to get alarmed.
I came across this site looking for some pictures to possibly have added to the encyclopedia of puffers.
Their eyes are golden yellow with iridescent blue-green specks in the pupil.
taken from
http://www.aqua.org/animals_stripedburrfish.html
It was the blue-green specks I was seeing that caused me to get alarmed.
I came across this site looking for some pictures to possibly have added to the encyclopedia of puffers.