Blind Black Moor With No Physical Symptoms

[awilson360]

I bought 2 fancy goldfish a fortnight ago, a young Oranda and Black Moor, roughly 2 inches long each. They are in a 25g tank, hopefully will be upgrade to 56g in a year or so.
The problem at the moment is that the Black Moor may be blind. He doesn't be able to see food floating on the surface or food falling to the bottom unless I place the flake straight on his head. Even then he half gobbles it and the rest will float off and the oranda eats it. From close inspection at his eyes they are both clear and he is a very active fish. When we first got him he developed a small fungus on the forehead and has a clamped dorsal fin but after 3 days of treatment it had disappeared and his dorsal is perky like normal now.

Are there any suggestions?

Thanks.

 

[VaegaVic]

I bought 2 fancy goldfish a fortnight ago, a young Oranda and Black Moor, roughly 2 inches long each. They are in a 25g tank, hopefully will be upgrade to 56g in a year or so.
The problem at the moment is that the Black Moor may be blind. He doesn't be able to see food floating on the surface or food falling to the bottom unless I place the flake straight on his head. Even then he half gobbles it and the rest will float off and the oranda eats it. From close inspection at his eyes they are both clear and he is a very active fish. When we first got him he developed a small fungus on the forehead and has a clamped dorsal fin but after 3 days of treatment it had disappeared and his dorsal is perky like normal now.

Are there any suggestions?

Thanks.

He may just be a blind little thing.
This does seem to be on the increase with blackmoors as more and more people are coming to me in this area with the same problems. You may have to train him that it's feeding time with vibrations and separate sides of the tank to the oranda.
Should cause no long term problems and I would say give algae wafers a try, goldfish love them and even blind ones seem to know they're in there.

 

[silverrabbit]

Aww bless. I've had quite a few different sorts of fancies, and the ones who were very "cockeyed" needed handfeeding. The tetra sinking pellet stick things are good for this as you can grip them at one end and hover them in front of his mouth