Pop eye on Gastromyzon
Posted: Mon Dec 31, 2018 7:16 am
Hello,
for several days i have been observing and treating an enlarged eye on one of the gastromyzons. It's on one of the biggest ones, and it does not seem to bother him, he is still feisty and shoves others from their preferred rocks and even fighting a sewellia, and has great colours - dark brown with bright spots, shiny blue black fins with reddish margins and all that. There is no evidence of anything wrong on his belly - everything nice and whitish, a nice heartbeat, no ulcers or anything. It's just a slightly enlarged eye, i probably noticed late, because it is only noticeable from the top, where you can see both eyes. It has no patches and does not seem bloated otherwise.
They are a recent acquisition (5), and they share a 120 hillstream tank with 2 sewellia marmorata, 9 sicydiine gobies, 2 other small loaches and two Danios.
What I have done untill now is:
- immediately upon noticing it, i changed between 75-80% of all water
- the i added ~ half a dosage of esha 2000
I hoped this will make it go away, since i persumed it was worsened water quality (i was feednig a bit more, i have two sicyopus and the bigger one does not let smaller one eat, so i was spot feeding them with a pipette, but to do that i had to feed everyone else in the tank untill they left the pipette alone). I also knew that gastromyzon bodies do funny things when they either get sick or the water quality gets bad - that's why i changed so much water (this would not worsen the problem, our tap water is not chlorine treated, and i use water conditioner anyway) - of course i was careful about the temperature (the last batch i did a bit colder to cool the aq from 24 C to 22 C).
I do not havethe measurements of nitrogen compounds (everything expired), but observation of algae, plants and animals tells me, there shouldn't be much nitrogen in the tank.
next day the eye was still enlarged. I continued the esha treatment (half dose).
Yestred day the eye was still enlarged, so i put a full dose of esha.
That brings us to today. I have done a 50% water change.
Should i continue with the esha treatment or use something else (i'm in EU, so antibiotics are difficult to get)? Anything else i should do? Anybody know what it might be except that it's a popped eye?
I really do not want to lose this one - i bought seven, one vanished from the quarantine and was nowhere to be found (the only explanation i have is, the quarantine tank was stood on another sturdy tank, that's always open, and it fell in... but i haven't seen him in to confirm), one climbed out got found a bit later, but he got injured, the wound got infected and it perished (the quarantine tank was tightly closed. the only hole was filled with blue filter foam, but they managed to squeeze out somehow).
I can't take a good photo, they are camera shy - when they see the light, they run.
for several days i have been observing and treating an enlarged eye on one of the gastromyzons. It's on one of the biggest ones, and it does not seem to bother him, he is still feisty and shoves others from their preferred rocks and even fighting a sewellia, and has great colours - dark brown with bright spots, shiny blue black fins with reddish margins and all that. There is no evidence of anything wrong on his belly - everything nice and whitish, a nice heartbeat, no ulcers or anything. It's just a slightly enlarged eye, i probably noticed late, because it is only noticeable from the top, where you can see both eyes. It has no patches and does not seem bloated otherwise.
They are a recent acquisition (5), and they share a 120 hillstream tank with 2 sewellia marmorata, 9 sicydiine gobies, 2 other small loaches and two Danios.
What I have done untill now is:
- immediately upon noticing it, i changed between 75-80% of all water
- the i added ~ half a dosage of esha 2000
I hoped this will make it go away, since i persumed it was worsened water quality (i was feednig a bit more, i have two sicyopus and the bigger one does not let smaller one eat, so i was spot feeding them with a pipette, but to do that i had to feed everyone else in the tank untill they left the pipette alone). I also knew that gastromyzon bodies do funny things when they either get sick or the water quality gets bad - that's why i changed so much water (this would not worsen the problem, our tap water is not chlorine treated, and i use water conditioner anyway) - of course i was careful about the temperature (the last batch i did a bit colder to cool the aq from 24 C to 22 C).
I do not havethe measurements of nitrogen compounds (everything expired), but observation of algae, plants and animals tells me, there shouldn't be much nitrogen in the tank.
next day the eye was still enlarged. I continued the esha treatment (half dose).
Yestred day the eye was still enlarged, so i put a full dose of esha.
That brings us to today. I have done a 50% water change.
Should i continue with the esha treatment or use something else (i'm in EU, so antibiotics are difficult to get)? Anything else i should do? Anybody know what it might be except that it's a popped eye?
I really do not want to lose this one - i bought seven, one vanished from the quarantine and was nowhere to be found (the only explanation i have is, the quarantine tank was stood on another sturdy tank, that's always open, and it fell in... but i haven't seen him in to confirm), one climbed out got found a bit later, but he got injured, the wound got infected and it perished (the quarantine tank was tightly closed. the only hole was filled with blue filter foam, but they managed to squeeze out somehow).
I can't take a good photo, they are camera shy - when they see the light, they run.