Cloudy eye???

Mr.Salmon · Dec 15, 2012

It's my birthday and i went to my LFS to buy some fish (my birthday present). When i came back home and acclimated my fish (celbes rainbowfish) and i realized one of my fish has cloudy eye!

Anybody know a treatment for it??? (another rainbowfish has a bent spine and it looked like it was about to die, i was like s**t!)

OrionGirl · Dec 16, 2012

I'd give putting the fish in a healthy environment a good shot. Often, cloudy eyes are from trauma, kind of like a bruise, and being in a healthy tank with good food is all that's needed. Monitor, make sure the fish is eating, then give it a few days.

Dangerdoll · Dec 16, 2012

Cloudy eye can also be from unfavorable water conditions. This could be anything from no maintenance to a sudden start of water changes or by disturbing the gravel in the tank and releasing anaerobic pockets in the gravel. Either way, Orion is right, a healthy tank is the best med for the fish. Keep an eye on the ammonia/nitrite/nitrate levels on the tank and up on your water changing schedule. Instead of going once a week as is recommended, maybe try twice a week with 25% each time. Either way, I don't believe there is a med that can cure it that is better than pritine water conditions. If there is now, it wasn't available 10 years ago.