What's wrong with my fish?

Question

I have a female fish and I just noticed that her eyes look funny. They look larger than normal and cloudy.

Answer 1

These are two symptoms that are often associated with poor water quality (commonly called "pop-eye" and "cloudy eye"). They could also be bacterial, but less frequently. You need to test ammonia, nitrite, and nitrate, and if you get anything above 0ppm for the first two, or 40ppm for the last, there is something wrong with your water quality and frequent partial water changes (of about 25% as often as every few hours until the numbers are safe) need to be done. Also, if the ammonia and/or nitrite is high, then your tank is not properly cycled, and that has to be fixed. Here is a site explaining how to do that in case you need to. http://www.aquatic-hobbyist.com/profiles/misc/fishcycling.html

If, on the other hand, your nitrate is the one that is high, either your tank is overstocked, or you are not doing partial water changes often enough, and you should revise your maintenance schedule and/or stocking to keep the nitrate always below 40ppm.

Answer 2

What kind of fish is she?

If it looks like too much fluid inside the eye and that fluid is cloudy, it's most likely a bacterial infection. For internal bacterial infections, I like to make a medicated gel food with kanamycin.
http://thegab.org/Articles/MedicatedGelFood.html

Do you have a tank where you could quarantine the fish?

if it's more like a white film over the eye, it may be from water quality.

It would help if you could provide the following info:
-Water Test Readings: Ammonia/NitrIte/NitrAte pH/KH/GH
-Water Temperature:
-Tank size and Filtration:
-Tank Inhabitants (How many, how big?):
-How long the tank has been set up:
-Routine Water Changes:
-What you feed them, how much, & how often:
-City or well water:
-Water conditioner used:
-New fish or plants added to the tank? What type and when? Were they quarantined?:
-Medications used:

Answer 3

Your fish probley has an infection in her eyes i would call a pet store to get something for the water to clear that up.

Answer 4

go to the vet and have them check it out or go to a pet website and put what your fish looks like and see if it is a type of fish with those kind of eyes.
good luck!!

Answer 5

Hey maybe your fish is in a changing process.It might be going into a different stage in its life.I hope you figure it out.I know how it is when you worry bout your pet.

Answer 6

this is a disease that she has go to your local petshop and get medication and do frequent water changes

Answer 7

go to the vet

Answer 8

http://www.flippersandfins.net/pop-eye.htm
Scan thrugh this site. It can be very informative.
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Answer 9

she's got cataracts.