Eye Problems

[sheree]

Over the past few weeks, I have noticed that my scissortail rasboras have had what looks like their eye has swollen up, cloudy and almost coming out. They are all over 3 years old and was wondering if this is pop eye. Its just that i've noticed one of my rummy nose and neon tetras have now got a bulging eye.

Water stats are

Ammonia - 0
Nitrite - 0
Nitrate - 20
Ph - 6.2

So they seem ok. I usually do water changes every 10-14 days but I've increased this to once every 3 or 4 days. I've medicated the water but to no avail up to now.

Its a 180L tank with
1 x angel, 4 x bolivian rams, 1 x boosmani rainbow, 2 x loaches, and approx 30 various tetras and rasboras

 

[WILDER]

What med did you use?
Is the neons red stripe still vibrant red, and not bleached out.

 

[sheree]

It was a Greenlife fungal infection - as that is what i thought it was when the first scissortail got it.

Yeah all look fine, they are eating well and still all very active - just the problem with the eye.

 

[Davo86]

It was a Greenlife fungal infection - as that is what i thought it was when the first scissortail got it.

What are the active ingredients in the med?
Pop-eye is usual a symptom caused by either a parasite or bacterial infection, so in most cases fungal treatments won't be too effective

 

[WILDER]

You really need to be treating with a bacterial med like anti internal bacteria med by interpet.
Just wanted to check the neons as popeye can be last stages of ntd.

 

[Fishlovingirl]

Just discovered my angel has pop-eye. What the heck is ntd? All the rest of the fish in my tank are fine.

 

[WILDER]

NTD is neon tetra desease.
The first sign of ntd is the red stripe area will look bleached or a milky appearance on the red stripe area.
You need to be using a bacterial med for popeye.