Re: Porcupine fish, going blind after eating frozen shrimp
Posted: Mon Jul 02, 2012 9:29 am
It's been a while since all started, in the meanwhile the fish has improved considerably and now it can actually see object moving outside and inside of the aquarium, following a finger on the glass, reacting when I wave my hand feets off the aquarium, hiding during day in live rock.
Most important, he can track and eat the food coming into the aquarium so I no longer feed him using a stick. Feeding large variety of frozen food, using Vitachem and Selcom every other day as suplement. I'd say he recovered about 75% of the eye sight, still not seeing perfectly (as sometimes it takes two attempts to pick some food) but when all of this issue started it wasn't able to see anything 1 inch in front of him.
He may or may not recover 100% of it's eyesight but the question remains, what could've caused him to lose in that quick in the first place? Was it the nutrition? Was it the water quality? The cowfish? A combination of these? I'm upset I'll never know the answer to the above.
Most important, he can track and eat the food coming into the aquarium so I no longer feed him using a stick. Feeding large variety of frozen food, using Vitachem and Selcom every other day as suplement. I'd say he recovered about 75% of the eye sight, still not seeing perfectly (as sometimes it takes two attempts to pick some food) but when all of this issue started it wasn't able to see anything 1 inch in front of him.
He may or may not recover 100% of it's eyesight but the question remains, what could've caused him to lose in that quick in the first place? Was it the nutrition? Was it the water quality? The cowfish? A combination of these? I'm upset I'll never know the answer to the above.