I work at a petstore that also sells fish. It's one of the last privately owned pet stores in Boston, and has really healthy livestock, can do special orders, etc - in all, one of the best LFS's I've seen and one I'm proud to work for. Unfortunately though, someone was not paying enough attention to one of the goldfish tanks, in which a bunch of Orandas were housed with some Ryukins. All the fish are still very small, about 2-3" in length. I'm not sure how long these fish were together, but it was long enough - one or more of the Ryukins has been attacking the Orandas, and over half of the Orandas had only one eye left by the time I noticed the tank yesterday (I only work weekends and I'm usually stuck behind the register.)
I already have a one-eyed Oranda that I adopted for the same reason - he was in a 30g tall with 2 other goldfish (all small, so it wasn't a lack of space that instigated it), one of which was a Ryukin that had already blinded one Oranda (that later got swim bladder disease and had to be euthanized), and had started going to work on the second. I didn't realize until yesterday that this Ryukin eye-attacking behavior wasn't a one-time incident until I saw the tank at my store.
Anyways, the long shot of this is that I adopted two of the Orandas that had both eyes gone. I was wondering if anyone else had experience with blind fancy goldfish, and if I could expect these two guys to pull through? Again, they're small, about 2-3" each. I'm not seeing any evidence of disease or infection around the sockets, and they look healthy otherwise. The problem I'm most worried about is swim bladder disease, because of the large amount of time they seem to spend at the surface gulping for food (even when there's no food in the tank.) I always feed that tank 1x a day at the same time each day, so that might help solve the problem but I'm not sure.
I was also wondering if anyone else had experience with Ryukins attacking Orandas' eyes
I already have a one-eyed Oranda that I adopted for the same reason - he was in a 30g tall with 2 other goldfish (all small, so it wasn't a lack of space that instigated it), one of which was a Ryukin that had already blinded one Oranda (that later got swim bladder disease and had to be euthanized), and had started going to work on the second. I didn't realize until yesterday that this Ryukin eye-attacking behavior wasn't a one-time incident until I saw the tank at my store.
Anyways, the long shot of this is that I adopted two of the Orandas that had both eyes gone. I was wondering if anyone else had experience with blind fancy goldfish, and if I could expect these two guys to pull through? Again, they're small, about 2-3" each. I'm not seeing any evidence of disease or infection around the sockets, and they look healthy otherwise. The problem I'm most worried about is swim bladder disease, because of the large amount of time they seem to spend at the surface gulping for food (even when there's no food in the tank.) I always feed that tank 1x a day at the same time each day, so that might help solve the problem but I'm not sure.
I was also wondering if anyone else had experience with Ryukins attacking Orandas' eyes
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