My angel fish has some white stuff around his eye and its sarting to bulge out. any advice or medicine?
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what are your specifics? tank size, how long set up, how many and what kind of fish, ammonia, nitrite, nitrate levels.
it is hard to recommend a treatment if we don't know your tank parameters. many times diseases are due to a weakened immune system from stress. it's best to eliminate the cause of stress first, otherwise any treatment will probably weaken your fish further.
it is hard to recommend a treatment if we don't know your tank parameters. many times diseases are due to a weakened immune system from stress. it's best to eliminate the cause of stress first, otherwise any treatment will probably weaken your fish further.
popeye can be caused by a wide range of things (excess gas, bacteria, trauma, viruses), so treatment is very difficult without knowing some background. popeye is often reversible (the fish will heal on its own) if you take care of the original cause of it. but there's no need to medicate if you're not sure what is causing the symptom in the first place.
I have a 55 gallon 8 gouramis 2 black skirt tetras and a chinese algae eater. The angel is around 10 years old.The tank is only 3 months old but I used some of the original water and the new water was aged properly. could stress cause this? as i am writing I just noticed that one of the gouramis just nipped at her
Did you cycle the new tank? Some water from the original tank will help, but the nitrifying bacteria mostly live on surfaces like gravel, BioFoam, decorations, and the tank itself. If you could get your water tested (either buy your own liquid test kit -strips are very unreliable- or have the store do it), I'm guessing you will find ammonia and probably some nitrite. Those two are very toxic to fish.henry gonzalez said:
Fighting, in and of itself, will not cause popeye but makes it and other diseases/symptoms come out, which your fish would normally fight off if it were healthy. So, yes, biting from the other fishes could have also exacerbated the infection, but my guess is that the water quality is the major cause.
If the biting is very bad, you may have to separate the gouramis and angel permanently. I don't have any experience with those two kinds of fish, so I can't tell you about their general compatibility. Perhaps someone else could help with that.