Should melafix help a clouded eye?

Question

My water parameters are fine, so someone suggested I do water changes every day because somehtin might of contaminated my tank. That also suggested treating it with meds, shoudl melafix work?

Answer 1

I doubt anything contaminated your tank or it would affect both eyes, not just one and would affect any other fish in the tank. I really wouldn't encourage you to do a daily water change, just one nice big one before you start the treatment.

I have had limited sucess with Melafix. If you catch the problem very early and treat right away it seems to help but in my experience if the problem gets bad it becomes more than Melafix can handle. That's just my personal experience though. It might be worth a try for a few days, but I would be ready to treat with other medications in case it didn't work.

MM

Answer 2

The end treatment of the problem depends on what they problem is in the first place.

If it looks like the cloudiness is on the surface of the eye and cotton like, it's probably a fungus, in which case Pima Fix, a fungus med, would be better.

If it's a film over the eye lense or the iris then it's likely a bacterial infection - melafix will help, but if it's serious you'll want a stronger medication (and a medication tank to preserve your cycle)

If the entire eye is clouded over then it could be a parasite or a disease like flukes, and should be treated accordingly - in these cases full recovery of the eye isn't guaranteed even if you manage to stop the problem.

If the eye was physically damaged by something then melafix will help it heal

Answer 3

Water changes as well as proper electrolyte levels are very important for disease prevention as well as treatment.
Many are unaware of the importance of calcium, sodium, magnesium and more in disease prevention and treatment (Redox can be important as well).

Efficient water changes that do not cause to rapid a change in chemistry are often helpful (a gravel vacuum is useful here).

As for meds, Melafix is basically gram positive in effectiveness which most aquarium diseases are gram negative which is why it often does not work (not that it is a bad product, it is just often misapplied). Melafix will work in many infections caused by injury as the aeromonas infections often respond to Melafix.

More likely you would need a gram negative treatment. Pimafix is a mild gram negative treatment. For more resistant infection Kanamycin or Kanamycin/Nitrofurazone combined.

Another often over looked treatment is a 30 minute bath in Methylene Blue; this can be performed twice per day with or without other treatments.

I recommend reading this article about aquarium medications and treatments:
http://www.americanaquariumproducts.com/Aquarium_Medication.html

This article about electrolytes and calcium may also be helpful:
http://www.americanaquariumproducts.com/AquariumKH.html

Answer 4

Melafix does not work, its useless and a waste of money. The key to keeping healthy fish is correct water, good filtration, and FRESH good food. Fish do not heal over night. If you go dumping meds in the tank you will definatly kill your fish. Use salt instead at 3 teaspoons per gallon (1 table spoon per gallon) and heat to 83 degrees. You will get much better and safer results.

Answer 5

Melafix is a very mild antibiotic. I'd try maracyn, but you'll need to use a strong antibiotic like maracyn in a seperate container or seperate tank because it will kill all the beneficial bacteria in your filter.

Answer 6

keep the water clean, the subject you're seeing is led to via undesirable water high quality. be sure you have a tank of proper length for a goldfish besides, it ought to no longer get extra clever until your black moor has a minimum of a 20 gallon tank. Melafix possibly won't help, it rather is regularly used for injuries. What you have is the two a micro organism or fungus. maximum possibly a fungus in view that melafix is an antibiotic.