an Oto has lost an eye

[daza]

I added 4 Otos yesterday and have just discovered one has since lost an eye!

Searching previous posts it seems that I should add some Melafix, so I'm going to the lfs now to get some.

Anything else I should do?

Any ideas of how this can happen (in general, not this particular case)? e.g. Can it be the first symptom of a disease, could he have just knocked it out, could the ZDs have been harassing it?

Health appears otherwise okay, it's still munching on the algae and moving around.

 

[squidlips]

non mutch you can do at all realy .itl be ok as it doesnt lose the other . i have seen it before and it should bother it .ghost knife fish eat eyes uot of catfish quite often not saying allways by any means but have seen it happen

 

[daza]

thanks...i shall just keep my eye on it then (no pun intended!)

i have added stress coat as the lfs didn't have melafix. hopefully it does the same job.

 

[Ava_Banana]

I have 2 molly fry that only have one eye each. It wasn't through popeye (that I could see).....I just believe that something took a nibble/nip.........

........as the Synos I have are territorial I wonder if it was one of those.......(although with a downward facing mouth I am not sure how they could have done it).....

...but they are fine.....I think........