Pop Eye

[shang hi]

Female dwarf gourami with pop eye, medication is only stoping the pop eye (bacterial infection) from spreading or repid protudion on the eye (its not helping it to got down) so i need some help on what i can do or weather i shoukd change medication from melafix.

Tank size: 30l/10 gallons
pH: 7.4
ammonia: 0ppm
nitrite:0ppm
nitrate: 20-30ppm
kH: N/A (will have asap)
gH: 140ppm
tank temp: 26C

Fish Symptoms (include full description including lesion, color, location, fish behavior):
right eye protuding from the eye socket more at the back of the eye, the front of the eye only recently started to come out of the socket. the eye showed redining before any protudion was present. now the back and top of the eye are showing large patches of redining and protuding from the socket more.
Same colour (except from around the infected eye), still active with a healthy apitite but does take a few seconds more (5-10 seconds more) to go at get the food. location is england if that helps

Volume and Frequency of water changes: 6l weekly and about to do 50% (15l) now. been doing two 5l water changes sinse medication added.

Chemical Additives or Media in your tank: stress coat as water conditioner, melafix for pop eye and to aid healing of one of her feelers. Pimafix to aid healing of a colombian tetra in the tank with cotton mouth.

Tank inhabitants: hospital tank - 1 female dwarf gourami (was a male who died after being attacked in my main tank and losing a large percentage of his tail fin) and 1 colombian tetra healing from cotton mouth and if progressing well.

Recent additions to your tank (living or decoration):female dwarf gourami 3 weeks ago before first signs of pop eye/ 1 month ago since bourght, all inhabitance in hospital tank were current fish i have been keeping moved from a different tank.

Exposure to chemicals: pimafix and melafix medications, stress coat water conditioner.

shang hi

 

[Tokis-Phoenix]

Popeye often comes about because of fluids building up in the fish from osmotic problems, but can also come about as a secondary infection with fish TB.
Melafix and pimafix are not very strong meds for this kind of stuff, a broad spectrum antibiotic or strong anti internal bacterial med is your best bet, i've had success with "anti internal bacteria" by interpet in the past for treating pop eye, however generally speaking pop eye is a difficult problem to treat (because it can have many causes and some of the causes that can cause it are untreatable or just generally very difficult to cure) although fortunatly it is not generally a very infectious disease.

 

[shang hi]

ill get some of that med for her asap. luckly shes in a hospital tank and has been for about 3 weeks with only one other fish so my community tank is safe for another day.