Help Fish Blindness Caused By Hypoxia Secondary To Physical Restrictio

[Scporche]

I recently move a favorite zebra peacock into a tank with a much larger fish. The larger fish chased the peacock for a few seconds and then just followed the peacock slowly. I left the room and was gone for several minutes. When I returned. The peacock had tried to hide or get away from the larger fish and had become trapped behind apparatus in the tank. I freed the peacock and returned him to the previous tank. Injuries to fish include several scales scraped, right eye was cloudy over the entire eye (on the side of the scale damage) and the left eye partially cloudy over mostly the center. The fish color was dampened overall from a brillant orange to having a greyness. Activity was sluggish. Overnight, eye cloudyness dissapeared but the fish seems to be blind or at least partially. Bumping into sides of tank, not eating. Not active or dominant as normal.

What treatment, advise or prognosis can anyone give to help my old friend?

 

[kribensis12]

If he truely is blind, put him in a tank by himself, or small fish that can not hurt him. As far as food goes, he should be able to smell it. To heal the scales and what not, try melafix, it's good for damaged fins ect. I would just wait it out and see.

 

[WILDER]

How many gallons is the tank.
How many fish and which type.
Water stats in ammonia, nitrite, nitrate, and ph.

Hows the fish now.

Cloudy eye can be injury, stress, old age, poor diet, irratation, bacterial, parasites.
Is the eye swollen or bulging out.

 

[Scporche]

Water quality is within acceptable limits. The fish does swim about the tank but very slowly. Not at all his normal active self. Eyes are not bulging or cloudy now. Bumps into objects in tank. Does not eat. Mostly hovers under large rock. Tank size- was in 55 gal then was moved to 250 gal now is in a 39 gal with small non agressive fish.

 

[WILDER]

Is it possible to issolate him and try a bacterial med.

 

[Scporche]

I can isolate him and treat with antimicrobials and or antifungals but he was fine before he was trapped. The fish looks nearly normal. His activity is very decreased. He hides in a cave and doesn't leave it or swim much. He does control his position well with his front fins.

 

[WILDER]

Acting listless and lethagic can be bacterial signs.
He dosn't sound right to me so I would use a bacterial med.

 

[Scporche]

Today the fish is swimming normally and shows no sign of being blind. The treatment I tried was isolation, increasing the water temp to 82 degrees and increasing the salinity. I am going to give him a few more days then return him to his original tank.

 

[Truck]

Fish can survive perfectly well without eyes, thats why they have a lateral line and nostrils to smell.