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went out earlier came back cutiepie is at the top of the tank breaathing heavilly and has blood in her eyes! i cant take a picture as the camera is with my partner abroad but her eyes have blood in them. could this be a brain hemmerage? advice please!


sorry missed out 0 0 5 readings, nothing changed lately shes been fine!

Oh no! Sorry I don't know how to help but could it be pop eye?
http://www.3reef.com/forums/fish-diseas ... 52901.html
melafix? I don't know. Someone please help!

its not popeye but the outter edges of her eye are full f blood on both sides and it only appeared in 3 hours while i was at my mothers for dinner... i have never seen anythign liek it

Try this link:
http://www.petmd.com/fish/conditions/ey ... _Disorders - 45k

unfortunately I'm at work and we are using an old browser and I cannot upgrade.
This is what I did get to read:

Eye injuries usually occur during shipping and handling, especially if the fish is struggling. Blood in the eye, however, is generally due to infection or ...

Hope it works for you. If not when I get home in an hour I'll try again.

i would presume any infection would be gradual this has just all came within a matter of hours from acting normal to this is shocking

Is it possible that she injured it on driftwood or something in the tank?

Some bacterial infections can go for a few days before they show any signs/symptoms. If it is both eyes I'm betting it's infection like the start of pop-eye or something on that line. Is the blood in the globe of the eye, on the outside of the eye, or in the tissue surrounding the eye?

the blood is in a thin ring on the outter edge of the eye the part that is usually yellow. she still hasnt moved all night att the top of the tank

That sounds like an infective process, more then likely bacterial. Hemorrage from the brain doesn't travel in to the eys as the eye is a closed globe and multi chambered. When you do see blood in the eye is is usually caused by broken vessels within the eye itself (trauma) or irritation (from infection or other source) with in the globe of the eye. To be honest I do not know what the treatment for an infection of the inside fo the eye would be for a fish. Gentimyacin or Tobramyacin is the normal treatment for humans and some different IV antibiotics.

ive added some tonic salts to her tank ill watch her and cross my fingers

Shoot Corvus a PM. He knows, well, all kinds of stuff about bacterial things that I can't even begin to understand! I'm sure he'll have a solution.

i have only just noticed her teeth are cracked and a huge peice is missing off the point of the beak! has anyone ever heard of this? only thing i can think of to draw it together is if for some reason she swam into the glass at speed?

Or into a hard piece of decoration. That's not at all unheard of. To my knowledge, the fish have always recovered easily, but this eye could be a complication.

both her eyes look quite bad to be honest currently she is resting ontop of a koralia 4 literally millimetres from the top of the water

Once you get her eyes better then you can trim her teeth. I have seen a puffer before with one side longer than the other, after a few bites out of a mussel the other side broke off and they were even again. I sure hope she starts to feel better soon.