Please help, how to treat a sick fish in reef tank ?

[reef93]

Originally Posted by Mandosh

Wait, who said your fish was going to go blind?

Even nobody says my fish will go blind but I know for sure if my Angel doesn't get treatment right now, it will difinitely go blind. It looks "serious" cloudy, I can not recognise that it would be called an eye anymore. I have treated all my fish with food soaked in garlic for a month now, but it doesn't seem to help that cloudy eye at all.
I can't catch him/her for quarantine, unless I rip the whole tank out, and I don't want to do that. Maybe I just have to let it go blind, as RuGlu6 said " better to have one eyed fish then a dead one ". I hope someone here has had some success experience with reef safe medication when they treat their sick fish.

[intarsiabox]

Unfortunatly it's very hard to treat a single fish in a display tank. It's probably equivilent to spraying antibiotics in aerosol form around the house to get rid of an infection. Extremely unlikely you will ever receive enough medication to have any effect. Just keep providing a healthy tank and food and with any luck things will turn out for the poor guy.

[untamed]

I had a yellow tail damsel live for at least 10 years AFTER losing an eye. If he seems otherwise healthy and continues to eat well, I would leave things alone.

[reef93]

Originally Posted by untamed

I had a yellow tail damsel live for at least 10 years AFTER losing an eye. If he seems otherwise healthy and continues to eat well, I would leave things alone.

Untamed, you have senior experience ( with your giant tank ) on Canreef, if you say so I guess I will not bother to find out how to treat my angel anymore. He is eating well and very active, hope he can live for another 10 years like your little damsel. Anyway, I still feel bad though ... poor little handsome guy ...

[Hawkaholic]

I'm with untamed as well...if your fish is eating good and otherwise seems healthy, I'd leave it be. Sorry to hear about your troubles reef93

[isaac1]

i find all dwarf angels being a challenge i had one the died of ick and another from starvation let it run it course most often the more you try to fix the problem the worse off you become somtimes nature has to run its course as long as ur other fish are fine i wouldnt worry about it

[reef93]

You were right about that, dwarf angels are a bit of a challenge, but they are so beautiful. My next tank will be a FOWLR tank with at least 10 angels in there with different sizes.

[BlueWorldAquatic]

Most of the time, cloudy eyes are a cause of a bacteria infection, injury, or water conditions.

Was it one eye or 2? If 1 eye it was caused by a injury, and the bacteria has "infected" it.

With my experiences in FW & SW, I find the best treatment is to give the fish the best diet. Use additives like garlic & selcon to improve its diet. Also water changes will help, as the better the water the better the chances.

I also use a product by Marc Weiss, called "Immunal Vital", it helps with stress and increases the fishes immunity.

Ken - BWA