Chalk goby eye problem

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Hi there, I have a pair of chalk goby's that I have had for about a year, one of them started getting a cloudy eye, and seemed to look just less happy in general. I put into a qt and over a week the eye seemed to have cleared up a little. It seems to be eating well. Not over the past few days it's eye seems to look worse again, and it's cheek almost looks sunken in. I did show a photo to my local
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fish store, which they seemed to not be able to think of an answer. My water parameters seeem good too me and no changes, and all other fish doing swimmingly. Il post some photos. Any advice would be greatly appreciated.
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Hi there, I have a pair of chalk goby's that I have had for about a year, one of them started getting a cloudy eye, and seemed to look just less happy in general. I put into a qt and over a week the eye seemed to have cleared up a little. It seems to be eating well. Not over the past few days it's eye seems to look worse again, and it's cheek almost looks sunken in. I did show a photo to my local
20251108_114149.jpg
fish store, which they seemed to not be able to think of an answer. My water parameters seeem good too me and no changes, and all other fish doing swimmingly. Il post some photos. Any advice would be greatly appreciated.
20251108_111430.jpg
As these fish darts into rocks and crevices, they tend to get injuries like this and should be treated in a separate tank using maracyn as pictured below

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I was hoping somone would say somthing along thoughs lines, I did think about it but was not sure. Thank you very much for the reply and information
 

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