Sick Fish- Cotton Eye?

[eternitybc]

Thanks- this is more like a few hours. I'm 90% sure at this point its a bristle worm- I can't find any reference to a disease that would do this to his eye. His eye looks normal size and clarity, just with "stuff" coming out. Same with his mouth. By stuff, its a firm solid filament, not cotton like.

And I'm pretty sure he's getting over it- it must have happened recently, because in the last 2 hours he's back out in the tank (though hesitant), eating, and I *think* some of them are falling off. Man it looks painful

I hope he recovers ok.. there were so many, I wouldn't be surprised if he lost some or all of his sight. I'M feeling better though! I thoguth i had lost him, or my tank had contracted some deadly disease!

[jamesjackkson]

I am 90% sure at this point it is a bristle worms, I can not find any mention of the disease, does that to his eyes. His eyes look normal size and clarity, just use the "stuff" out. Similarly, his mouth. To things, it's a firm solid silk, cotton, do not.

[eternitybc]

Thanks, forgot to update this thread! It was most definitely a bristle worm. The glass like shards completely covered one of his eyes, to the point where I could barely make it out. I thought he would lose it.

But..he didn't. They slowly fell out (or he rubbed them out, who knows) and he's 100% back to normal. Took about a week, in case anyone else has this happen. He's even started his nesting again (He grabs ANY coral, shell, rock, whatever- that he can pick up, and has a pile in the back of the tank). I suspect this may be how he came to grab a bristle worm in the first place.

Stupid fish.