Does any body know how to cure pop eye?How about salt or hot water to erase the disease in the tank gravel?
2006-12-18 18:05:50 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous in Pets ➔ Fish
Pop eye (exophtalmia) can result from rough handling, gas embolism, tumors, bacterial infection, or vitamin A deficiency. Gas bubble or bacterial infection can be treated successfully with penicillin or amoxicillin.
2006-12-18 18:13:57 · answer #1 · answered by momoftrl 4 · 1⤊ 1⤋
What is pop eye-
Symptoms
Pop-eye is a condition that causes one or both eyes stick out of the head in an unnatural way. (Note: Some fish, including moors and some types of goldfish, are bred for this appearance. Don't treat a fish that is supposed to look like its eyes are shooting out of their sockets.)
This affliction can be caused by bacterial infection, parasites, bad water and metabolic disorders. It usually strikes one or several of the fish in a tank community, but rarely all.
If many fish in the tank community get pop-eye, the tank water could be obscenely dirty, or an infectious agent could be polluting the water.
Pop-eye is not usually infectious, and is rarely fatal.
Treatment: In order to avoid loss of the eye(s) completely, it is essential to identify the cause of the swelling and correct it right away. If there are no other signs or symptoms pointing to an underlying bacterial or fungal infection, then environmental causes could be the culprit, be it incorrect water chemistry or poor water quality. Conducting water changes of 50% to 60% each day for two to three days and general improvement of water conditions will likely cure this problem without the use of medications. If environmental causes are at the root of the problem, the large-volume water changes will bring an almost immediate improvement in the accompanying cloudiness of the eye, a sure sign the treatment is working. Following shortly after that, this will likely bring an improvement in the swelling of the eye as well.
2006-12-19 01:51:57 · answer #2 · answered by angelmwilson 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Salt water therapy is ok for most illnesses but about popeye I'm not so sure. I would suggest a good anti-biotic like ampicillin or something. One capsule to the water should do the trick. Sometimes its better for the fish to actually lose the infected eye. Losing one eye doesnt really harm the fish at all.
2006-12-18 20:19:14 · answer #3 · answered by steve s 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
that is necessary that you isolate this fish earlier it infects all others on your tank. you're saying you do not have a spare tank, get a sparkling, properly rinsed glass field, a large ingesting glass will do for some thing the dimensions of a cardinal tetra, and drift this on your universal tank to maintain temperature at the same time as placing apart the unwell fish. this way you may medicate as recommended.
2016-11-27 19:32:40 · answer #4 · answered by fette 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
there is a liquid you can buy at the aquarium supply place- a few drops in the water, get onto it straight away as the other fish will get it- if you can afford a little tank to separate that fish then do so but treat the whole tank of fish and say hi to Olive Matie, Eye Eye.
2006-12-18 18:14:30 · answer #5 · answered by cooee 2 · 0⤊ 3⤋
Get medication. I have found that Mardel products work the best. Go to a pet store and pick up Maracyn-two.
2006-12-18 19:11:37 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Pop eye is not contagious, it seems to be an internal problem
and does not effect the other fish
2006-12-18 19:27:56 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋