jaimoe
Fish Fanatic
I have an adult female auratus that I put in a hospital tank about 2 months ago to treat it for bloat and popeye. I gave it the metro treatment and the boat went away and the eyes stopped swelling, but I've kept the fish in the hospital tank because it still has cloudy eyes and it appears to be blind. It can tell if someone walks up to the tank and can tell when you lift the hood to put food in, but it cannot find the food, and has to wait until the food falls to the bottom, where it just sifts through all the sand trying to find the food. I kept up medication for another week but it still didn't clear up. I figured I would just leave it be in the hospital tank and see what happens, thinking maybe it was a permanent condition. Well two months in the hospital tank and it still has the cloudy eyes(cataracts?). Has anyone ever heard of popeye causing permanent blindness? Are there any medicines out there that are good for solving this particular problem? I'd hate to have to keep this fish in the hospital tank for the rest of it's life.....but I can't return it to the big tank in this condition, it would just end up starving to death.
