Gold Fish Missing An Eye!

[Roseanna]

Hello all!
I've go home today after being away for 2 weeks to find my black moor missing an eye! I'm really worried I'm going to lose the the little guy :'(

I've just done a test and my water sat's are really bad
Ammonia 1.0
Nitrite 2.0
Nitrate is 0
PH 7
Temp 19c
3ft tank

My mum was feeding bloodworms and mealworms when I was away every 2nd day.

Other tank mates are 2 fantails both round 2/3 inch and a rainbow sneakhead just touching 3 inch maybe. Filters are a fluval U3 and a old plus 4. Tank has been running for well over a year with the 3 goldies, the rainbow got given to me about 2 months ago. Normally it gets a 20% water change every week but as I was anyway I missed two, I've just don't a 80% change and will do the same again tomorrow!

Could it of been my water stats that has cost my poor moor his eye? or I'm worried that its the rainbow that has eaten my moors eye, but there swimming next to each other so I'm unsure of if I should get rid of him?

I feel like an evil owner :'( I've had this wee guy for 3 years now and I'd hate to see him die due to my stupidity! I didn't think my water would go that bad so fast, lesson well learnt now tho

 

[Tizer]

Craft an eye patch for him, then name him Pirate Bob and every time to see him go "yaaaaaaaaaaar Pirate Bob".

 

[FishBlast]

Sounds like one of the tank mates was a meany to the moor. Its eyes being bulgy, I can imagine that the other fish might be able to grab it easy... Poor fish. Try to make his life as good as you can, he'll probably be used to living with one eye, but if it's the tank mates... make sure he doesn't go blind...

 

[Fishy friend2]

Are their any ornaments that he could have hurt himself on?

 

[Roseanna]

I'm really worried it could be a tank mates, but I doubt its one of the goldies as they have always been together no problem. Yes there is two fake plants and a fake broken pot, they've been in there for months and months but I can take them out. I forgot to add its a bare bottom tank till I get some dark sand!

 

[FishBlast]

I'm really worried it could be a tank mates, but I doubt its one of the goldies as they have always been together no problem. Yes there is two fake plants and a fake broken pot, they've been in there for months and months but I can take them out. I forgot to add its a bare bottom tank till I get some dark sand!

Is the eye removed whole out of the socket or is it just busted?
If it's removed whole, sounds like it's been fish food.
If it's busted then yeah, might be the decor.

 

[Man of fish]

How big is the tank?

 

[sheffieldlad]

Hello all!
I've go home today after being away for 2 weeks to find my black moor missing an eye! I'm really worried I'm going to lose the the little guy :'(

I've just done a test and my water sat's are really bad
Ammonia 1.0
Nitrite 2.0
Nitrate is 0
PH 7
Temp 19c
3ft tank

My mum was feeding bloodworms and mealworms when I was away every 2nd day.

Other tank mates are 2 fantails both round 2/3 inch and a rainbow sneakhead just touching 3 inch maybe. Filters are a fluval U3 and a old plus 4. Tank has been running for well over a year with the 3 goldies, the rainbow got given to me about 2 months ago. Normally it gets a 20% water change every week but as I was anyway I missed two, I've just don't a 80% change and will do the same again tomorrow!

Could it of been my water stats that has cost my poor moor his eye? or I'm worried that its the rainbow that has eaten my moors eye, but there swimming next to each other so I'm unsure of if I should get rid of him?

I feel like an evil owner :'( I've had this wee guy for 3 years now and I'd hate to see him die due to my stupidity! I didn't think my water would go that bad so fast, lesson well learnt now tho

The stats are high and shouldn't really get that high even if you mised 2 water changes but I don't think it's the reason for the one eyed fish.
More likley that he's been picked on.
You should investigate why the stats have crept up as high as they are though

-Paul

 

[garyspence84]

I have an albino cory that lost an eye a while ago in a cat fight and he/she seems to be doin fine without it. As long as its still swimmin about and eatin, I wouldnt worry about it to much.

 

[Iiriva]

I'd say that some other fish has eaten it out, bad water doesn't cause a whole eye to go missing.

Erh, goldfish are going to be enormous when they grow up. Three goldies would need about 900 liters of water (237,5 gallons). If I got it right, your tank is way too small to keep even one...

Meh, I blame pet shops though.

Goldies are cute when they are small, and they are sold as kids, but one goldfish is going to be like a feet tall when an adult, so...

 

[FishBlast]

I'd say that some other fish has eaten it out, bad water doesn't cause a whole eye to go missing.

Erh, goldfish are going to be enormous when they grow up. Three goldies would need about 900 liters of water (237,5 gallons). If I got it right, your tank is way too small to keep even one...

Meh, I blame pet shops though.

Goldies are cute when they are small, and they are sold as kids, but one goldfish is going to be like a feet tall when an adult, so...

A neighbor of mine kept goldfish in a pool... until the cats came and cleared it within a month. But the different kinds of goldies I saw in there were awesome: some had a red crown and were silvery, some were all golden, some looked like my silver ones, 2-3 were black moors like I had long ago.

And yeah, dad got tricked by their size too, that's why he bought some. He thought they stay that small, apparently those are his favorite fish.

 

[Man of fish]

Actually goldfish only need 20 gallons plus 10 gallons per additional goldfish. So she needs 40 gallons not 235.7. Where'd that number even come from?

I'd say that some other fish has eaten it out, bad water doesn't cause a whole eye to go missing.

Erh, goldfish are going to be enormous when they grow up. Three goldies would need about 900 liters of water (237,5 gallons). If I got it right, your tank is way too small to keep even one...

Meh, I blame pet shops though.

Goldies are cute when they are small, and they are sold as kids, but one goldfish is going to be like a feet tall when an adult, so...

 

[deftuch]

an 80 percent water change is far too much. even if you did miss a few water changes its too much. you shoudnt have changed that much.

 

[Iiriva]

Sorry, my bad, I miscalculated.

For three, I'd say at least 300 liters, that's 80 gallons.

I don't know about other countries, but keeping 3 goldfish in a tank under that would be considered animal cruelty.

 

[Man of fish]

What country is that because sadly we have no fish cruelty laws, but your fish cruelty laws sound pretty harsh.