porc cloudy eye
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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.
porc cloudy eye
My porc could possibly have cloudy eye...IDk because ive never seen cloudy eye. im pretty sure it is though, On the outside of his eye( the thing that protecs the eye in his head,the glassy part) Looks like glass that hasn't been cleaned in weaks. If someone could post a pic of what cloudy eye looks like on a porc that could help. I would send a pic but i don't have a camera so...And if he has it how do i treat it. Ive been doing 50% water changes almost 2 times a day because the tank is not yet fully cycled so the nitrites are a little high.
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Re: porc cloudy eye
Here are 2 pictures of Porcupine Puffers. One has the cloudy eye and the other has a healthy eye. Natural iridescence in the eye is normal and a sign of a healthy puffer.
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Re: porc cloudy eye
surely a porc in a non cycled tank is the worst possible situation.
Doing constant WC on a saltwater tank has got to be risky... any fluctuations in the SG, PH, Temp and your puffs going to get even more stressed...
How come your porc is in an uncycled tank? Do you have live rock in there...?
Keep up the water changes but be absolutely spot on with your PH, SG, and Temp. Add the new water very slowly each time....
and hope it cycles fast!
Good luck.
Doing constant WC on a saltwater tank has got to be risky... any fluctuations in the SG, PH, Temp and your puffs going to get even more stressed...
How come your porc is in an uncycled tank? Do you have live rock in there...?
Keep up the water changes but be absolutely spot on with your PH, SG, and Temp. Add the new water very slowly each time....
and hope it cycles fast!
Good luck.
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Re: porc cloudy eye
He's got LR and stuff. His tank is almost done cycling.
Re: porc cloudy eye
My porc looks like the bottom picture...it has the green incondecent look to it, thanks alot for the pic that helps and takes a load off lol. My porcs tank is done cycling now, actually the nitrite went to zero just like a cpl hours ago. The other thing i didn't have time to include in my last post was something me and crazedpuffer were talking about for a while now and still cant figure out. my porc has a internal bulge on his right side by his anus. He is not showing signs of illness at all really, I have never owned a porc before so I wouldn't catch any big irregularity that a porc would show, But i have had puffers before and it seems to act like one just a little bit more clumsy. No outside signs on the bulge all internal,its been there since day one and i have had him for a weak now and it hasnt progressed or gotten worse at all...Im stumped. other then that he will only except shrimp and muscles if i hold them in the water for him , he will only eat live foods with no help, he has a clown fish in his tank and hasn't botherd it yet, I'm working on setting up his new home and plan to get another clown fish when that tank is all done. and this goes to crazedpuffer, I plan on getting an all in one sump...$560 lol and its made for a 120 gallon tank, I think its a 40 gallon sump or something. And when i said i was going to have my porc all alone in my 74 he thought i was crazy, he said that only one? Thats a big tank for only one lol, and i said that the people on the forums i post on say thats to small lol.
Re: porc cloudy eye
Lol that last sentance seems dumb, I must have deleted some of what i said by accident. I meant to say when I told the owner of my LFS that i was having just one porc in a 75 gallon he thought i was nuts. And he also said that his buddy back in the day had 4 of them in a 150 gallon, wow is that insane.
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Re: porc cloudy eye
You know better than to listen to them. Of course they want to sell you more fish!
You are getting sleepy... you only hear the sound of my voice... you must do water changes... water changes... water changes... water changes...
"The solution to pollution is dilution!"
"The solution to pollution is dilution!"
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Re: porc cloudy eye
seriously pp, they dont care how the fish will end up they just want the money.
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Re: porc cloudy eye
Chin, Nice photo comparisons!
You are getting sleepy... you only hear the sound of my voice... you must do water changes... water changes... water changes... water changes...
"The solution to pollution is dilution!"
"The solution to pollution is dilution!"