Clown fish pop eye injury

[winxp_man]

got a new pair of Darwin clowns. The kid had to have hit one of them with the net possibly. Got it home and its left eye is bubbled out. Kinda ticked because it’s a wide bad Darwin and a beauty for sure.

From anyone that has had injury popeye what’s a rough time frame for healing? Was thinking of maracyn but this will only possibly add more stress.

Thinking to give it a few days and see what happens. The fish seems okay other than it knows its eye is not well. I will try feeding in the morning. See if it even decides to eat. Maybe some selcon or vitachem soaked pellets? Or vitachem drops in the tank? As if now it’s in a small QT.

 

[vetteguy53081]

got a new pair of Darwin clowns. The kid had to have hit one of them with the net possibly. Got it home and its left eye is bubbled out. Kinda ticked because it’s a wide bad Darwin and a beauty for sure.

From anyone that has had injury popeye what’s a rough time frame for healing? Was thinking of maracyn but this will only possibly add more stress.

Thinking to give it a few days and see what happens. The fish seems okay other than it knows its eye is not well. I will try feeding in the morning. See if it even decides to eat. Maybe some selcon or vitachem soaked pellets? Or vitachem drops in the tank? As if now it’s in a small QT.

Injury is the likelihood and it appears this fish is in quarantine already. The fix would be maracyn as pictured or API erythromyacin but if using coppersafe, I dont like mixing meds. Selcon wont do much

 

[Jay Hemdal Verified Community Expert]

got a new pair of Darwin clowns. The kid had to have hit one of them with the net possibly. Got it home and its left eye is bubbled out. Kinda ticked because it’s a wide bad Darwin and a beauty for sure.

From anyone that has had injury popeye what’s a rough time frame for healing? Was thinking of maracyn but this will only possibly add more stress.

Thinking to give it a few days and see what happens. The fish seems okay other than it knows its eye is not well. I will try feeding in the morning. See if it even decides to eat. Maybe some selcon or vitachem soaked pellets? Or vitachem drops in the tank? As if now it’s in a small QT.

Is the fish eating this morning?
The picture looks a bit "murky" and there seems to be a "haze" on the fish, is that all an artifact of the photo?

Eye damage, even if it doesn't get infected, can take a long time to heal - a month anyway. If you can see discrete air bubbles, then it may never heal properly.

Maracyn I in a treatment tank is well tolerated (just manage the ammonia) but since it takes so long for eye damage to heal, it's hard to tell if it helps much or not.

Vitamin drops in the water is for sure a no-go, that just feeds bacteria. In the food can have benefit, but only of the fish is vitamin deficient in the first place.

https://reefs.com/magazine/aquarium-fish-the-eyes-have-it-a-review-of-eye-health-in-aquarium-fishes/

 

[winxp_man]

Injury is the likelihood and it appears this fish is in quarantine already. The fix would be maracyn as pictured or API erythromyacin but if using coppersafe, I dont like mixing meds. Selcon wont do much

Reason for selcon or vitachem is to help boost healing. And yes QT tank. I just got him yesterday and noticed in the bag he wasn’t doing good when I put him in the water to aclamate him. Then I put a light on him and noticed the eye. While he was swimming at the LFS he was perfectly fine no issues. Have 7 other fish same purchase and not a single issue. I know it’s possibly net damage. No other reason to think of any other issues as of now. And only one eye is affected. Usually injury related from what I know.

 

[vetteguy53081]

Reason for selcon or vitachem is to help boost healing. And yes QT tank. I just got him yesterday and noticed in the bag he wasn’t doing good when I put him in the water to aclamate him. Then I put a light on him and noticed the eye. While he was swimming at the LFS he was perfectly fine no issues. Have 7 other fish same purchase and not a single issue. I know it’s possibly net damage. No other reason to think of any other issues as of now. And only one eye is affected. Usually injury related from what I know.

New clown? I will guess trhe injury may have occurred in the bag with its eye against the plastic or netting. Maracyn works well with this

 

[winxp_man]

Is the fish eating this morning?
The picture looks a bit "murky" and there seems to be a "haze" on the fish, is that all an artifact of the photo?

Eye damage, even if it doesn't get infected, can take a long time to heal - a month anyway. If you can see discrete air bubbles, then it may never heal properly.

Maracyn I in a treatment tank is well tolerated (just manage the ammonia) but since it takes so long for eye damage to heal, it's hard to tell if it helps much or not.

Vitamin drops in the water is for sure a no-go, that just feeds bacteria. In the food can have benefit, but only of the fish is vitamin deficient in the first place.

https://reefs.com/magazine/aquarium-fish-the-eyes-have-it-a-review-of-eye-health-in-aquarium-fishes/

I will try to feed him this morning. So long story short as I wrote in the reply to Vette. Purchased yesterday alongside 7 other fish. The LFS employee injured him for sure. The others all good not a single issue. As I was acclimating his bag I noticed he was swimming funny. And so put him in a separate tank, and added bacteria being I didn’t want to put him in a setup that was already going. So as of now no other reason to even think it’s not injury realated.

 

[winxp_man]

New clown? I will guess trhe injury may have occurred in the bag with its eye against the plastic or netting. Maracyn works well with this

Yes new fish.

 

[Ziggy17]

My damsel swam into a rock in my DT and had pretty severe eye damage. It hid for a few days but in less than a week it started eating again. Thankfully it kept eating and eventually healed back to 100%. I did not remove it into a QT or medicate the tank. Tried to keep the stress level as low as possible for it. I was very fortunate.

Hope it heals well.

 

[winxp_man]

My damsel swam into a rock in my DT and had pretty severe eye damage. It hid for a few days but in less than a week it started eating again. Thankfully it kept eating and eventually healed back to 100%. I did not remove it into a QT or medicate the tank. Tried to keep the stress level as low as possible for it. I was very fortunate.

Hope it heals well.

It’s my hope to! The fish is a super nice one. And I told the guy I would have came back the next day and taken it when he they had food on hand to feed the tank to get the fish. It was in a coral tank so it was harder to catch the fish without food, unless you god crazy with the net, but then the risk of the fish hitting something was just as high.

As I was paying for the other 7, he came up with this guy. I was surprised. But then saw this outcome and not good. I will keep it in the smaller tank and hope it heals.

 

[luxe]

My female white storm clown had her left eye like that. Just fed with BA vitamin and amino and it healed up quick.

 

[winxp_man]

My female white storm clown had her left eye like that. Just fed with BA vitamin and amino and it healed up quick.

Hoping it will be he result. I know it’s going to be at least a week possibly before I see anything worth posting about. Unless it gets worse. Fish is healthy otherwise. Been eyeing this for for a long time, for purchasing. And he was doing good in the tank he was in.

 

[vetteguy53081]

Reason for selcon or vitachem is to help boost healing. And yes QT tank. I just got him yesterday and noticed in the bag he wasn’t doing good when I put him in the water to aclamate him. Then I put a light on him and noticed the eye. While he was swimming at the LFS he was perfectly fine no issues. Have 7 other fish same purchase and not a single issue. I know it’s possibly net damage. No other reason to think of any other issues as of now. And only one eye is affected. Usually injury related from what I know.

Im fully aware (been doing this 45 years). My point is , while an immunity booster will not help the eye. When you say help healing, will not hurt with stamina of fish but boosts immunity against disease

 

[winxp_man]

Im fully aware (been doing this 45 years). My point is , while an immunity booster will not help the eye. When you say help healing, will not hurt with stamina of fish but boosts immunity against disease

And that’s what I was going for. If it does not help the eye, it will give him a boost that is all well towards keeping him going strong while the eye heals. Then all should be good in due time. As for meds should I do maracyn at this point in time? Or hold back for a few days and see how it goes?

Thanks for your info ;)

 

[vetteguy53081]

And that’s what I was going for. If it does not help the eye, it will give him a boost that is all well towards keeping him going strong while the eye heals. Then all should be good in due time. As for meds should I do maracyn at this point in time? Or hold back for a few days and see how it goes?

Thanks for your info ;)

Maracyn will be a big help. Just keep an eye on ammonia level during treatment and air stone will help with O2 levels. You got this!!