POP eye on my fish? will he heal?

Question

We have been treating the tank with ick medicine, and his eye looks worse! will he heal? it literaly looks as if his eye is fixing to fall off. The white has COVERD the eye. Should we go ahead and flush him?

Answer 1

The problem you have with the popeye is typically a bacterial infection, and ich medication doesn't treat for that. I would suggest a few water changes of 25-50% over the next few days to remove the ich medication, then adding a broad-spectrum antibiotic to deal with the popeye.

There are some cases where the infection may be viral or fungal, but if this was fungal, the ich medication should have had an effect. When doing the water changes, be sure to use a siphon to clean the gravel well - if this is a bacterium, there's a chance some may reside in the gravel, so you want the tank as clean as possible. Sometimes, just thorough cleaning can eliminate the popeye if the cause is poor water quality. Also, be sure to remove any carbon from filters before adding the medication.

Answer 2

Hi,
The same thing happened to my fish 1 week ago and it died. it was my guppy the ick medicine wont help. I tried it too, dont flush it. Let it live for as long as it can in your fish tank, it has feelings too.

Answer 3

Look into buying a fungus medicine. If you look on the back of many medicines, it tells you what it treats. Ick meds will not treat popeye.

Melafix works GREAT.

Answer 4

don't flush him just yet take him to a specialist if you care that much about him but, if you don't just go ahead and flush him but what kinda fish is he?

Answer 5

thats gross but sad, id say flush away
but if u love him go to petsmart and ask them

Answer 6

it may be bactrial but try this site http://watergarden.com/koi-goldfish/fish-health-disease.html