Sick Neon Tetra! I’m a novice that needs advice

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Kuhlikuhli65

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I had 7 neon Tetras for about a month. About a week ago one passed very suddenly. He was fine till an hour before and his only issue was swimming weird.
Now another is sick and I can’t figure out what it is.
It’s only swimming strange and it’s eyes seem bigger then the others, so maybe popeye? It also gets bullied out of food so I made sure it got some last night and it’s swimming much better so maybe it doesn’t have enough food?
I have kuhlis so I’m gonna take it to a small tank to at least give general cure.

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the loach

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It's a runt. He has fin rot and is emaciated as well. The quality of many tropical fish is very poor nowadays. You can try but I doubt you will be able to save it.
 
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Kuhlikuhli65

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I figured it might have popeye just now, haha. I was worried it could be neon Tetra disease, but I don’t think so? I’m not sure, this is the first group oof neons I have had. Also my water is at 0 for ammonia and nitrite. At 10 for nitrate
 

Kuhlikuhli65

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Okay, thank you! I was so worried it was neon Tetra disease. Yeah I also got him from pet i which I’m learning is not the best for quality of fish unfortunately
 

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With popeye the eye is pushed outward, but the eye itself isn't bigger. It's impossible to say which diseases he doesn't carry, best thing would still be to separate him.
 
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Kuhlikuhli65

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Okay cool, thank you! It wasn’t looking like the pictures of popeye when I looked it up but I wasn’t sure, so thank you for clarifying it! Yeah I’ll still separate it
 
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