Ich On The Eyeballs

[fishwatcher]

I got a small group of hatchets recently (5, to be exact). And, of course, they have ich now. I expected that as a few people have told me they are terribly prone to it. The crazy thing though is that one of them has a white speck on each eyeball! That I've never seen before. I'm treating it as normal ich, and hopefully it'll cure them. I wonder, though, if this is going to blind him...

 

[starrynightxxi]

it's happened to my fish before. shouldn't blind them at all. also, i think hatchets are prone to ich only if they aren't kept in brackish water (like mollies) but i could be wrong on that.

 

[Lynden]

Hathetfish are brackish?!

I thought they were softwater amazonian fish!

 

[starrynightxxi]

well I THOUGHT they were, but i don't keep them, so i'm not positive on that. however, i am positive that ich on the eye won't make them blind. so at least I'm good for something

[edit] aight, i was wrong, they aren't brackish. GLASSFISH are brackish and the pestmart near me keeps them with the hatchetfish. of course it didn't occur to me (because i'm stupid-lol-) that they wouldn't keep brackishwater fish in brackish water.

 

[WILDER]

White specks on the eye can be eye flukes.

 

[Lynden]

Yeah, spots on the eye are not necessarily ich. If they were there before you bought 'im, they could also be a birth defect.

 

[WILDER]

Are they specks, or grains of salt, you will have to look closely.
Look under eye flukes.

http/www.fish-disease.net/diseases.htm

 

[black angel]

If right in the middle of the pupil it could be a type of fungal infection

 

[Thuggerz]

Hi, might be the start of cloudy eye

 

[fishwatcher]

It actually is like a grain of salt on both of it's eyes. It's about on the pupil on one, and a little to the side on the other. 2 others have ich, too, on them in various places.
After treating it once yesterday, I've done a 30% water change. Looking at them again, I've noticed the white spots are starting to get smaller. They also are getting more of a fuzzy look to them. Should I treat again, or wait and see how it goes?

 

[Lynden]

Always follow through with the full course of treatment.

 

[WILDER]

Carry on with the whitespot med till the spots have gone, can even treat another weeks once the spot have gone, fish can get whitespot on the eyes, turn temp up tp 30, remove black carbon if you use it, also increase aeration in the tank as the med and high temp reduce 02 in the water.

 

[fishwatcher]

Glad to hear I'm doing things right. I'll treat again tonight after I do a water change. This is the first time in over a year I've had any problems... I guess that's what I get for trying a fish I've never had before!
Thanks, again!

 

[guppymonkey]

well I THOUGHT they were, but i don't keep them, so i'm not positive on that. however, i am positive that ich on the eye won't make them blind. so at least I'm good for something

[edit] aight, i was wrong, they aren't brackish. GLASSFISH are brackish and the pestmart near me keeps them with the hatchetfish. of course it didn't occur to me (because i'm stupid-lol-) that they wouldn't keep brackishwater fish in brackish water.

Petsmart knows absolutely nothing about brackish water fish or their needs. Most of their stores are on a central system so its actually impossible for them to set the tanks up as brackish.

As for hatchetfish, yes they are soft water Amazonian fish. They are very very very prone to getting ick or any other disease. They are basically a delicate fish that will usually be the first fish to get sick if anything goes wrong.

 

[fishwatcher]

well, that's great to know! NOT! LOL