Cloudy eye or injury
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That’s Popeye. You can usually treat it with Melafix ( not on bettas). Also give the fish epsom salt baths. Add 1 teaspoon of epsom salt to 1 gallon of dechlorinated water. Allow the fish to stay in bowl for 2 minutes then remove him. You can do this 3 times a day. The epsom salt will pull fluid off the eye. Keep your tank very clean. Do a 75% water change daily and then add the Melafix. Do this for 7 days. If not improved, you will need antibiotics such as Kanaplex and Furan-2 together. Good luck. Keep us posted.
But the eye is cloudy
I’m afraid you’re gonna lose the eye or worse if you can’t treat it. Get a large plastic food safe tote and treat him in there. I have a 6” one in a tote now being treated.
Ok Walmart here I come
Do 50% daily water change. Do you have any fungus med? I have 55 G tank of discus that had cloudy eye, i treated them with fungus med, aquarium salt and daily water change for 20 days.
Don't handle the fish or move it into another tank because you can damage it further.
Just do a 75% water change and gravel clean the substrate every day for 2 weeks.
Make sure any new water is free of chlorine/ chloramine before it's added to the tank.
Clean the filter if it hasn't been done in the last 2 weeks.
Wash filter media/ materials in a bucket of tank water and re-use them.
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You can add rock salt (often sold as aquarium salt), sea salt or swimming pool salt to the aquarium at the dose rate of 2 heaped tablespoon per 20 litres of water.
If you only have livebearers (guppies, platies, swordtails, mollies), goldfish or rainbowfish in the tank you can double that dose rate, so you would add 4 heaped tablespoons per 20 litres.
Keep the salt level like this for at least 2 weeks but no longer than 4 weeks otherwise kidney damage can occur. Kidney damage is more likely to occur in fish from soft water (tetras, Corydoras, angelfish, gouramis, loaches) that are exposed to high levels of salt for an extended period of time, and is not an issue with livebearers, rainbowfish or other salt tolerant species.
The salt will not affect the beneficial filter bacteria but the higher dose rate will affect some plants. The lower dose rate will not affect plants.
After you use salt and the fish have recovered, you do a 10% water change each day for a week using only fresh water that has been dechlorinated. Then do a 20% water change each day for a week. Then you can do bigger water changes after that. This dilutes the salt out of the tank slowly so it doesn't harm the fish.
If you do water changes while using salt, you need to treat the new water with salt before adding it to the tank. This will keep the salt level stable in the tank and minimise stress on the fish.
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If there's no improvement after 3 days of water changes and salt, then look for a broad spectrum medication that treats bacteria, fungus and protozoan infections.
Just do a 75% water change and gravel clean the substrate every day for 2 weeks.
Make sure any new water is free of chlorine/ chloramine before it's added to the tank.
Clean the filter if it hasn't been done in the last 2 weeks.
Wash filter media/ materials in a bucket of tank water and re-use them.
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You can add rock salt (often sold as aquarium salt), sea salt or swimming pool salt to the aquarium at the dose rate of 2 heaped tablespoon per 20 litres of water.
If you only have livebearers (guppies, platies, swordtails, mollies), goldfish or rainbowfish in the tank you can double that dose rate, so you would add 4 heaped tablespoons per 20 litres.
Keep the salt level like this for at least 2 weeks but no longer than 4 weeks otherwise kidney damage can occur. Kidney damage is more likely to occur in fish from soft water (tetras, Corydoras, angelfish, gouramis, loaches) that are exposed to high levels of salt for an extended period of time, and is not an issue with livebearers, rainbowfish or other salt tolerant species.
The salt will not affect the beneficial filter bacteria but the higher dose rate will affect some plants. The lower dose rate will not affect plants.
After you use salt and the fish have recovered, you do a 10% water change each day for a week using only fresh water that has been dechlorinated. Then do a 20% water change each day for a week. Then you can do bigger water changes after that. This dilutes the salt out of the tank slowly so it doesn't harm the fish.
If you do water changes while using salt, you need to treat the new water with salt before adding it to the tank. This will keep the salt level stable in the tank and minimise stress on the fish.
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If there's no improvement after 3 days of water changes and salt, then look for a broad spectrum medication that treats bacteria, fungus and protozoan infections.
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