manutius wrote:Are you sure its an infection and not a graze or bump injury from the decor or other puffer? If your water is spotless as I think it is becuase you got them to breed I would think an infection is less likely.
PLease post the answers to the Q's above in red and maybe we will have more to go on. As far as them being more sensitive I am not too sure sorry, personally I thought these were more robust than some other species
First of all, I'm not the one breeding my baileys, thats jelly.
The bailey-tank is about 30g, have been up a couple of months and is overfiltrated with 185g+150g /h. Inhibitants are two 3" baileys, now seperated by plastic mesh due to agressivity. Feeding is about two-three shrimps per week and water change is about 30% /every second week. Temperature is 25c, thats 77f if I'm not mistaken.
I don't have the water parameters, but I'm ordering new tests as I'm writing this.
And yeah, it's not just an injury. The thing is that I've had the exakt same thing on a pike cichlid in an other tank not so long ago. It started with a gray'ish transparant spot on the eye. Then it suddently was a something that looked like a white crust with knife-sharp edges. And then the eye turned completely opac with fuzz in the middle. I added salt to the water and tried to cure that with "JBL Fungol" when I thougt that it just was fungus. Then "aquafuran" from Aquarium Münster against all types of bacterial infections, and when nothing worked I tried with "Steriazin" from waterlife in case it was some kind of parasite.
Nothing seemed to have any effect, but the pike cichlid is now healed. The lens in the affected eye is gone, so the fish is blind on that eye, but it looks fine and healty.
In the tank with the pike cichlides I've had problems with extremely small white worms that just wouldn't go away. They say it's planaria worms, but i think it's something else. They are way to small for one to see the "eyespots as well as protrusions from the sides of their heads." These are more like the size of dust particles.
And there's more than that; there are small white particles gathering and growing on the surface, like somekind of strange floting algea. It would eventually cover up the whole surface if you didn't clean it away.
I've covered up the tank completely in black plastic for as long as a couple of weeks and drastically cut down on the feeding for a long period of time. But the worms and the white particles on the surface stayed.
And what do you know, some weeks ago I was doing some maintance on my tanks, and forgot to rince my hands with tapwater before I went from the pike-tank to the bailey-tank. So now I got worms and white particles there to. And suddently one puffer gets the same eye-problems that I had with my pike.
I think there's something nasty living in my tanks and will do a complete water change and clean everything I have in the tanks as soon as possible.