Eye Loss

[paudie22]

my friend has a 60 gallon tank with a mix of platies, swords, clown loaches, gold barbs, yoyo loaches, danios, shrimp and blue botia loaches and his red veil tailed platy has lost an eye. he is showing no other injuries and i was wondering which of the fish in the tank could have done this or would it have occured in a fight with another male platy his ratio of male to female platies is 3 to 1. all his stats are normal too

 

[WILDER]

The tank is severely overstocked.
I would take the clown loaches back to the lfs as the tanks way to small for them.
Was the eye bulging out before it lost it. Any cloudiness to the eye.

What are water stats in ammonia, nitrite, nitrate, and ph.

Does the missing eye area look clean or infected.

 

[Truck]

we cant say its over stocked without knowing the numbers.

if the area is infection free, the fish will still function fine, they use their sense of smell for food, they use the lateral line to detect predators and the swim bladder to control their boyancy

 

[Davo86]

The blue botias are highly aggressive and can't usually be kept with your average community species,

Is that the full species list of fish in the tank? i.e. there aren't any sucking loach/chinese algae eaters or BGKs for example ?

If the fish has lost the eye then the most likely culprit from your list is going to be one of the botia species, so either the clowns, yoyos or blues

 

[WILDER]

Sorry thought it was a 60 litre.

 

[paudie22]

no sucking loaches or any type like that its the full list of fish along with a 6 inch pleco numbers i tank are 3 clowns 2 yoyos 2 blue botias 8 platies 5 swords 2danios 6 gold barbsand 2 shrimp and bigget loaches around 3.5 inches long.
also the fish was showing no sign of any puffy eyes or disease before or after losing eye so i think the bkue botias will have go back