Oh No! 1 Of My Rams Has Something Wrong Now!

[mark1979]

Just been looking at my GBR's and 1 of them has a clear coating over 1 of its eyes!!

it is being chased around by my other GBR quite alot,and im wandering if it is a wound of fighting or something else.

my water stats are as follows

ph - 7.2
amm - 0
nitrite - 0
nitratre - 5.0

its a 125l rio tank

i only had this GBR for 2 days,if its a disease could i take it back to the LFS?

also i thought about isolating it,but my spare tank has my poorly cory in it,with a fungus med in the water,ccould i put this ram in there for now too so it stops getting chased?

cheers

 

[WILDER]

Cloudy eyes is a symtom of a desease not a desease in its own right.
Causes.
Bad water quality.
Stress.
Old age.
Poor diet.
Irratation.
Toxins
Parasites.
Bacterial.

He could be stressed if another fish is bothering him.
Is the eye bulging out.
Any signs of flicking and rubbing.
Any white specs behind the lens of the eye.
Any excess mucas on his body or gills.

 

[mark1979]

it isnt cloudy,i looks like a drop of glue has been dropped on his eye!!

its totaly transparent,he/she is getting majorly chased for some reason,over than that its eating well and looks perfectly fine!!

it hasnt been subject to any bad water with me,could this have been starting at the lfs? if so can i do anything about it? only had him/her 2 days!!

if not what med can i use? bearng in mind that te cory is in te hospital tank

 

[WILDER]

Can you see any white specs behind the lens of the eye.
Any excess mucas on his gills or body.

Check for scratches on the eye.
Was he caught roughly.

I would put him in with the cory of so signs of flicking and rubbing.
The methylene blue might help with the eye.

 

[mark1979]

yes,it appears to have a little pale cloudy mark there,is that bad i presume

 

[WILDER]

Keep a look out for these signs.
I would move him in with the cory. Match ph and temp.
I would get the interpet med out of the tank and add some methylene blue to the tank. Once the other med has been removed.



Eye Flukes (a.k.a. Eye Cloud)



Symptoms:

Fish with this condition will have white specks inside the lens of the eye. This can lead to further damage, ranging from cloudiness of the eye to rupturing of the lens and blindness. In severe cases the eye may actually be pushed out and removed from the socket, leaving the fish eyeless.



Cause:

The larval stage of digenetic fluke parasites, such as Clinostomum, Posthodiplostomum and Diplostomum spathaceum. The parasite lodges in the lens, humour or retina of the fish’s eye. If present in large numbers, severe damage can occur. Minor infestations may go unnoticed. The life cycle of these flukes begins when fish-eating birds and other animals ingest fish infected with the parasites. Once ingested the parasites mature in the intestines of the host animal where they produce eggs. The eggs are then deposited into the water where they hatch and infect the livers of aquatic Snails. The parasites then develop into a second and third larval form before leaving the Snail to seek out a fish host. This type of parasitic infestation is most common in wild-caught fish and fish kept in ponds.



Treatment:

Treatment with Copper or Organophosphorous antiparasitic remedies have proven most beneficial. Prevention, however, works best. This entails avoiding any obviously infected fish, discouraging fish-eating birds from visitng your pond, and remving any snails from the aquarium or pond to end the cycle of infection (so as to interrupt the life cycle of the parasite).