NIger trigger with pop eye

Lance · #1 11-07-2010, 02:07 AM

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Originally Posted by daniella3d

How long did it take in your case to improve?

I am feeding him with food soaked in kanamycine as well. He eats everything no question asked.

If it's a scratched eye it should heal pretty quickly; it did for me. 2 to 3 days. If it was caused by poor water conditions at the time of purchase it may take a little longer. Just guessing here though.

daniella3d · #2 11-07-2010, 03:14 AM

I don't know, maybe it was poor water condition from where he comes from. I am not going to buy any more fish from that LFS because they always have something. I have a blue tang in quarantine in the other tank in hyposalinity because he had ich, and it was exchanged as the first one also had ich and refused to eat. So it's the third fish I buy from that place and all of them had something wrong.

I am not sure it's going to resolve because he seemed to have something a bit whitish and reflective inside the eye before he started the pop eye, but we'll see with time. I will keep feeding him twice a day with bloodworms soaked in kanamycin and epsom salt is in the tank.

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Originally Posted by Lance

If it's a scratched eye it should heal pretty quickly; it did for me. 2 to 3 days. If it was caused by poor water conditions at the time of purchase it may take a little longer. Just guessing here though.

daniella3d · #3 12-03-2010, 01:57 PM

After nearly 3 weeks in Paraguard the eye have cleared and I don't see the white thing inside anylonger. The pop eye has receided quite a bit but there is still some swelling as I can see one eye is larger than the other still.

I was hoping that I can put the fish in my display tank this weekend as I don't think I can do much more for this eye that what I have done already. Will this eye eventualy return to 100% normal? should I continue the paraguard treatment until it is 100% normal? Should I just put the fish in the display tank and let it finish healing there? I am not sure what to do at this point?

The fish is still small and I am pretty sure as it will grow up the eye will return to normal size has its body will grow, but not sure realley what to do for right now?

viperfish · #4 12-03-2010, 04:18 PM

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 · #5 12-03-2010, 04:31 PM

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 · #6 12-03-2010, 06:56 PM

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 · #7 12-03-2010, 07:22 PM

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.

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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)

daniella3d · #8 12-03-2010, 07:20 PM

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.

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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.