Platy's Eye Gone Wrong

[Wendy-Jane]

Kind fishy folk,

Please help me if you can. I just went to feed/count/health check my fishies and there's something wrong with one of my sunset platies. One of her eyes looks funny. It's like there is an white/opaque covering on it, and it's sticking out a bit from the surface of the eye (maybe 1 or 2 mm). Does anybody have any idea what it might be, or what I should do? She's acting normally apart from that.

Any thoughts welcome - I'm a relative newbie with no experience with sick fishies (not a clue what to do), so please help me if possible.

Thanks,
Wendy

 

[xJake]

Sounds like eye cloud. I've seen it many times in goldfish. I would isolate the platy and treat with a melafix/pimafix combo. Melafix will clear the actual eye cloud and pimafix will help prevent any secondary infections from stress. Also, add 1 tbsp of salt per 5 gallons of water to the isolation/hospital tank to relieve some stress and turn down the heater to below 80F but above 76F as heat makes bacteria/fungus reproduce faster but if it gets too cold the platy will get stressed and die.

 

[WILDER]

Cloudy eye is a symtom of a desease rather than a desease in its self, stats would be good in ammonia,nitrite,nitrate, and ph.
If the eye is bulging out it sounds like it could be popeye.

http/www.flippersandfins.net/pop-eye.htm

 

[Wendy-Jane]

I don't know what cloudy eye is, but this is not like a cloud (I mean it's not like a cataract in humans) - it's more of a physical thing, like a flap sticking out (a scale around the eye that's got dislodged and is now covering it???) or something.

Sorry about not posting water stats - I was in a panic and didn't think. We don't have a hardness kit, but pH is 7.2, ammonia is 0, nitrite is 0 and nitrate is somewhere around 20 or 40. We (me and husband) have real difficulty reading the nitrate test, as it's just various shades of orange, as opposed to the ammonia and nitrite tests, which change colour if there's any present, so I'm sorry we can't be more accurate - it's just that we can never be certain.

We water change between 10 and 20% every Sunday (depending on what we THINK the nitrate is ie higher this time than last or lower). The tank is a Juwel Vision 180 (180 litres) and the stock is (sorry but this is going to sound so boring) 5 danios, 6 neon tetras, 6 glowlight tetras, 7 male guppies (don't ask!) and 6 female platies plus one small baby ?. Tank been set up several months and always been quite stable, but I'm not sure exactly how long without my diary (in the office)- started adding fish around April I think.

I can't think of anything else I should have told you. Whatever is wrong, she's still hungry.

Thanks for your fast replies chaps - they are much appreciated, and sorry for posting without the requisite info earlier.

Wendy.

 

[WILDER]

This might help then.
http/www.webguru.com/wiki/Fish_Eye_Diseases

 

[Wendy-Jane]

Thanks guys - this forum is brillinat

 

[WILDER]

Good luck.

 

[Truck]

could be a cataract