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I have an SAP in a 20 gallon with a few small Danios (they get along well... they respect the SAP). My test kit shows all water conditions are normal, and my SAP seems happy.

Problem is: his eyelid is growing over one of his eyes... its about half way covering his right eye... the eyelid is sort of translucent.

Impossible to get him to hold still for a photo.

Has anyone experienced this before?

-steve

i don't think it's his "eyelid". could it be he's getting a bacterial infection on his eye? or some other sort of fungus? if you have melafix and/or pimafix i would start dosing those right away. does it look like skin folding over his eye or does it look like something growing on the eye, like a milky film?

Thanks for the advice.

Yes, it looked like a milky film. On closer inspection, we saw some "salt" on her tail so she went into the QT tank with some meds... the eye has already healed and the film is gone. I don't think she will forgive me... I'm not getting the "loving stares" I used to...

At least her appetite is everything it has ever been - voracious!


-steve

great you got to treated so fast... i often find white spot causes eye irritations and can often lead to cloudy eye...

treat the white spot quickly enough and the eye usually heals..

Please don't use meds on your puffer. Read the ich article in our Library.

Cloudy eye is usually caused by stress, rather than a direct infection necessarily. If you noticed your SAP has ich, that could be why one of it's eyes has gone cloudy.

Sometimes cloudy eye can also be caused by physical trauma. In this case I'd say the ich has stressed your SAP and that was the cause. As PP says, you need to be careful with dosing meds.

I'm glad she seems to be recovering though!