Cloudy eye

[Colin_T]

The fish is covered in excess mucous and has a cloudy eye covered in mucous. The eye itself is not that swollen so I doubt it is a bacterial infection in the eye.

Overdosing with medication, and medications that wipe out filter bacteria will cause excess mucous.

Your best bet is to do a 75% water change each day for a couple of weeks and raise the water temperature to 30C (86F). Keep the temperature at 30C for 2 weeks.
The warm water will kill any whitespot parasites and the big daily water changes will treat fin rot, the cloudy eye and help the fish recover.

If the fish still has a cloudy eye after 2 weeks of daily water changes, then the eye might be damaged. However, I would do water changes and heat before adding any more chemicals or medications.

 

[ConnivingFerret]

been doing the water changes, eye still looks the same, meds arrived in the mail today... going to start doing them mixed with water changes every other day now. the ich is gone however

 

[FishGuest5123]

been doing the water changes, eye still looks the same, meds arrived in the mail today... going to start doing them mixed with water changes every other day now. the ich is gone however

Keep us posted!

 

[ConnivingFerret]

So still no noticeable improvement on the eye, but the betta is super energetic, literally jumps out of the water at the pipette when i have mosquito larvae/ daphnia/ brine shrimp to feed it. So I'm starting to wonder if its a physical injury...thoughts?

 

[Colin_T]

can you post a couple more pictures of the fish (front and side views if possible)?

 

[FishGuest5123]

Pics would be great! If it hasn’t healed yet now he may be permanently blind in that eye. He’ll be fine with one eye though.

 

[ConnivingFerret]

give me a min to do a water change. the meds kinda make the water yellow

 

[ConnivingFerret]

all changing the water did was kick up the sand so it went from yellow to cloudy

https://i.imgur.com/enYTZOy.jpg https://i.imgur.com/2K4GfRk.jpg https://i.imgur.com/XjY6p7r.jpg

 

[FishGuest5123]

He looks good. Lens of eye looks scratched. Sometimes they clear up and sometimes they don’t. Just watch and continue clean water. Good luck!

 

[ConnivingFerret]

think its safe to stop the meds then?

 

[FishGuest5123]

I would. Too many meds or too long of use can cause kidney damage.

 

[ConnivingFerret]

Good news she looks to be pretty much all healed up, fed her some Daphnia from my somehow seemingly successful first attempted culture and she's as feisty as ever. Now I just got to get her a more permanent home seeing how her old tank is currently occupied by two other females and a male in quarantine.

 

[FishGuest5123]

Great news!