Freed fish has cloudy skin?

[Buzzthebuzzsaw]

Hi All,

I've just been away from my tanks for the weekend and I've just returned to find that one of my serpae tetra's had gotten itself trapped behind a small filter I had in the tank.

I thought he was dead and was trying to remove the suction cups from the glass when I spotted his fins moving, he was still alive!

I've freed him from his little prison where he could barely move, how he ever managed to get in there is beyond me!

After freeing the little guy I've noticed that some of his skin is cloudy and so is one of his eyes.

I've isolated him in a 10 litre hospital tank which I've put beside the other tank so he hopefully wont get too stressed with the isolation and I'm treating with anti-fungal/finrot treatment.

Is a fungal treatment correct, there are no real indications of fuzz or furr on the fish apart from this cloudiness on the skin and eye that was in contact with the glass of the tank.

If anyone has any suggestions or a better idea what could be wrong then I'd greatly appreciate any help.

Thanks!

 

[WILDER]

Cloudy eye is a symtom of a desease rather than a desease in it's self the cloudy skin what colour is it, is it a dirty grayish white colour.

 

[Tokis-Phoenix]

Check your ammonia, nitrate and nitrite stats and do a 40% water change with dechlorinator as although he has cloudy eye, it could have been caused by the conditions he was found in too.

 

[Buzzthebuzzsaw]

I'm pretty sure that the cloudiness is from him being trapped between the filter and the glass.
What I'm wondering is if the cloudiness is from a bacterial, or fungal infection, or if there is something else that may be causing it.

I've changed the water and he seems to be getting along o.k, but there are some white marks on one side, which appear to have just come up, but they're probably from cuts from struggling to get free from the filter as they're not on the side the glass was on.
They're not the same as Ich so I'm not worried there, but they're an added problem.

Do you think that an anti fungal treatment is correct, of would an anti-bacterial treatment be better or is there something that I've missed.

Thanks for the replies.

 

[Tokis-Phoenix]

Start off with melafix and and a watered down dose of fungal med and see how that goes .

 

[WILDER]

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Milky Skin- Milky skin is excess mucus production. If no new fish have been added more than likely the reason is from pH plunges. Symptoms: Fish hanging at the surface, their skin will appear milky, and their eyes may turn whitish. Treatment: If the pH is stable, but you have added new fish, you can consider ammonia burn, or perhaps parasites. In either event, using salt is highly recommended. In some rare cases, a salt resistant Trichodina, Costia, or Fluke infestation may be the culprit. Use of a microscope will be needed to diagnose this. Then you would treat for the parasite you discovered accordingly.

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