Growth or injury

[seangee]

Spotted this today. The eye appears cloudy. Other eye is normal and the fish is behaving as normal. No sign of anything on any other fish

 

[Colin_T]

The eye appears to have been damaged, the red patch at the bottom of it. The dorsal fin also looks clamped and white.

Have you checked the water quality?
Do a big water change, complete gravel clean, and clean the filter if you haven't done it in the last 2 weeks. Then wait 24 hours and see how it looks. If it hasn't gotten any better then add some triple sulpha or something like that.

 

[seangee]

Heh heh those white streaks in the fins catch me every time too. The N compounds are 0/0/0. 60% change every weekend - last one on Friday night. Only thing out of the ordinary is the temp has been hovering close to 30 for the past few weeks.

I did do some gardening and re-arranging during the week. This usually triggers a minor dominance struggle amongst the Sids who, I suspect, are the culprits in this case.

 

[seangee]

Alls well that ends well. I adopted a watch and wait approach with no treatment and nothing changed for 10 days. Day 11 and she was fine - no marks and I could not even tell which fish it was. All 15 of my glowlights are accounted for so she did not become fish food. I have seen reports of growths (or whatever) that just "fell off" and assume it was just an injury and when it was ready the "scab" did just that.