willis Posted August 21, 2009 Report Share Posted August 21, 2009 (edited) i bought 2 armatus from the states and they are my dream fish, but on the second day they arrive, one of them started to develope this white all over the whole left eye and the eye was swelling. i went to gold aquarium and they gave me FURAN. three days later the swelling was gone, but there's this solid white "INSIDE" the outer cover of the eye just covering the pupil. the fish seem to be blinded on that one side and i'm one 4th day treatment, it stayed that way and not improving. anyone had the same problem? what kind of infection is this? any suggestions? thanks everyone! Edited August 25, 2009 by willis Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Parachromis1 Posted August 21, 2009 Report Share Posted August 21, 2009 (edited) Seeing as the inside of the eye is still white, it's going to be blind on that side. I've had it happen to me before. Edited August 21, 2009 by Parachromis1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
willis Posted August 21, 2009 Author Report Share Posted August 21, 2009 Seeing as the inside of the eye is still white, it's going to be blind on that side. I've had it happen to me before. really? sigh...... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
t-man Posted August 22, 2009 Report Share Posted August 22, 2009 (edited) Seeing as the inside of the eye is still white, it's going to be blind on that side. I've had it happen to me before. really? sigh...... My Mannie piranha had the same problem when I bought him. It was an injury to his eye that he just received when I got him. Check out this post on piranha-fury and it shows pics and such. I believe I used mela-fix and salt. If I remember the eye kind of popped where the white patch was and healed up as good as new.Eye problem Edited August 22, 2009 by t-man Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
willis Posted August 25, 2009 Author Report Share Posted August 25, 2009 as you can see, the stuff in my fish's eye is almost solid white.......anyone know what this is and how to get rid of it? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Parachromis1 Posted August 25, 2009 Report Share Posted August 25, 2009 Part of it will go away with time and good water. Other than that I think the poor thing is blind on that side. So he won't be catching fish from that angle now! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SomethingFishy Posted September 4, 2009 Report Share Posted September 4, 2009 I had a black skirt tetra, one of the first fish I ever got, injure his eyes on both sides, very much like the pics on this post. Kind of a white spot over the centre of the eye. If it's any consolation, this tetra is now 7 years old, happy and fine, navigates easily throughout the tank and around plants, and even chases other fish once in a while. I know it looks terrible, but the fish will be ok, I think. P.S. at first I thought it was a contagious infection and treated it as such but have never had another fish with this problem :boxed: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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