Flowerhorn - Clowdy Eye

[arulnathan]

Can anybody tell me how to treat (Marine Fish) Flowerhorn with a clowdy eye ...thank you

Arul nathan

 

[Mr Miagi]

Got a proper name for the fish? A general google search came up with what I suspected, the FW Flowerhorn. To my knowledge, cloudy eye can be cuased by a poor diet or bad water conditions.

Tell us about your set-up, the water parameters etc you have him/her in.

 

[arulnathan]

this is the flower horn pic...can anybody tell me which medicine to use...thank you.

http/i114.photobucket.com/albums/n242/ar.../Flowerhorn.jpg

 

[Lynden]

Flowerhorns are freshwater. You might get more answers about it there, in the freshwater forum.

Cloudy Eye can be difficult to treat, as it can be either fungal, parasitic, or bacterial. Until you know which, you can't really treat it Sometimes it can be associated witha terrible disease such as Mycobacterium marinum, which can also infect humans.

-Lynden

 

[Opcn]

Yeah, thats a cichlid there, there are very few cichlids that can actually make it to salt water and live. I would recomed either the emergency forum if its bad, the new world cichlid forum, the hybrids forum, or just tropical chit chat. Why were you thinking flower horns were sw anyways?

 

[Lynden]

Yeah, thats a cichlid there, there are very few cichlids that can actually make it to salt water and live.

Actually, you'd be surprised; I sure as hell was when I learned that you can actually acclimatize many cichlids to saltwater. Apparently, it's because they evolved from saltwater fish. It can be done with many Nandopsis and Tilapia, as well as other cichlids that do not have specific water requirements. Nmonks told me about it.

-Lynden

 

[SkiFletch]

While my cichlid knoledge is minescule at best, I do know that I ate some Tilapia for dinner last night... Do people actually keep these in aquariums?

 

[Opcn]

I know there are some, but the rift lake cichlids, and most of the south american cichlids cannot take full saltwater, all fish evolved from salt water fish, but that doesn't mean that its healthy for them to be in salt water.

Edit: while there are a good number I suppose that will not die immediately when shifted to SW they may develope problems like "Clowdy Eye" which I take as proof that we should keep them in climates that approximate as closely as possible both the vast majority of there native habitats and the farms in which they have been bred for generations.