NIger trigger with pop eye

[viperfish]

Just be patient, keep the water quality up, and keep the stress level low. I have an Orange Shoulder Tang that had pop eye when I got him (I felt bad for the poor little guy). It's been a couple of months and it's almost gone, no treatment of any kind, just a healthy environment.

[Stones]

If you do introduce the trigger to your display tank, you will no longer have the option of feeding food soaked in antibiotics. Since you the majority of the infection has already been taken care of, a diet of frozen and prepared foods soaked in garlic extract and a vitamin supplement such as selcon will surely help the fish recover as well.

[JonT]

Make sure there will be little to no stress in the system. If you are going to put him in the tank, make sure nothing will bully him.

These triggers are really resilient. I too have one. He has survived a few attacks, and some scratches from being a chicken (the two smaller clowns bully him sometimes)

[daniella3d]

I have stopped the food with antibiotics long ago, 3 weeks ago in fact as it was not doing anything. I think the white stuff inside the eye was eye flukes and paraguard took care of it. I only saw improvement after about 4 days in paraguard and the eye cleared, then the swelling started to slowly go away.

I treated for one week with kanamycin and I usualy don't treat more than that with antibiotics if I don't see improvement and I change treatment then. Glad I did as paraguard worked well.

Originally Posted by Stones

If you do introduce the trigger to your display tank, you will no longer have the option of feeding food soaked in antibiotics. Since you the majority of the infection has already been taken care of, a diet of frozen and prepared foods soaked in garlic extract and a vitamin supplement such as selcon will surely help the fish recover as well.

[daniella3d]

Nothing will bully him for sure I have only pacific fish in there. A blue hippo tang, 3 cardinals, 1 mandarin and 1 clowfish.

All of my current fishes are sweeties, very very pacific with each other and all eat together without fight. The only stress he would have is to adjust to a new tank, but a much larger one and a lot more places to hide than this 20 gallons with 3 little pieces of liverock he's in right now.

So what do you think? put it in the DT?

water quality in both display tank and quarantine tank is zero detectible nitrates, ammonia and nitrites as well as no detectible phosphates. I would say it's pretty good water quality.

I feed him with garlic soaked food: shrimp pieces, nori algae, spirulina enriched brine, fish roe and live white worms on occasion.

Originally Posted by JonT

Make sure there will be little to no stress in the system. If you are going to put him in the tank, make sure nothing will bully him.

These triggers are really resilient. I too have one. He has survived a few attacks, and some scratches from being a chicken (the two smaller clowns bully him sometimes)