Tigger, our Tiger oscar had a bad accident a couple weeks ago.
We don't really know what happened, but we noticed he had some marks near/around his right eye.
We just assumed he and the other oscars got in a scuffle.
After a few days, the injuries seemed to get worse, and his entire eye glazed over kinda like eye cloud. but then the eyecloud turned solid white.. (you know the little white balls in hungry hungry hippos? that's what it looked like) It also began to spread to the other eye.
At that point, we decided it was time for QT. We isolated him and went through a full course of jungle LifeGuard (a general cure-all for fungus,bacteria, etc) during which the eye-gunk seemed to break up and begin sluffing off. Unfortunately with the eyegunk, the iris of the eye sluffed off with it..
by the time the course of treatment was over,most of the gunk, and with it most of the eyes, was gone.
after a water change we moved on to melafix, and yesterday was the last dose of that. He literally looks like his eye was cut in half, flush with the surface of his head.
The worst part is that he hasn't been eating hardly at all during the course of this treatment. he's eaten 1 rosy red feeder fish, and 4 pond snails in 2 weeks. He's pale, he's thin, he's blind, and he won't eat.
What do i do?
We don't really know what happened, but we noticed he had some marks near/around his right eye.
We just assumed he and the other oscars got in a scuffle.
After a few days, the injuries seemed to get worse, and his entire eye glazed over kinda like eye cloud. but then the eyecloud turned solid white.. (you know the little white balls in hungry hungry hippos? that's what it looked like) It also began to spread to the other eye.
At that point, we decided it was time for QT. We isolated him and went through a full course of jungle LifeGuard (a general cure-all for fungus,bacteria, etc) during which the eye-gunk seemed to break up and begin sluffing off. Unfortunately with the eyegunk, the iris of the eye sluffed off with it..
by the time the course of treatment was over,most of the gunk, and with it most of the eyes, was gone.
after a water change we moved on to melafix, and yesterday was the last dose of that. He literally looks like his eye was cut in half, flush with the surface of his head.
The worst part is that he hasn't been eating hardly at all during the course of this treatment. he's eaten 1 rosy red feeder fish, and 4 pond snails in 2 weeks. He's pale, he's thin, he's blind, and he won't eat.
What do i do?
