Clownfish Eye Infected?

[Bryce Peterson]

After 13 days of cupramine, I woke up to this. Treatment suggestions?

 

[KJ]

https://www.reef2reef.com/threads/bacterial-infections.191511/
@Humblefish @melypr1985 @Brew12

 

[Humblefish]

The photos are kinda blurry. Is it just that one eye looks "popped out" of place? Any cloudiness to the eye?

 

[Bryce Peterson]

Yes, there is cloudiness. The fish was in qt with a trigger. Should I treat both with antibiotics, or just the clown. I can continue the trigger's qt in another tank.

 

[Bryce Peterson]

The photos are kinda blurry. Is it just that one eye looks "popped out" of place? Any cloudiness to the eye?

Yes, there is cloudiness. She is in qt with a trigger. Should I treat her with him or continue his qt in a separate tank ?

 

[Bryce Peterson]

Yes, there is cloudiness. The fish was in qt with a trigger. Should I treat both with antibiotics, or just the clown. I can continue the trigger's qt in another tank.

The eye looks popped out.

 

[Humblefish]

Two more questions:

1. Any chance the trigger is responsible for damage to the clown's eye?
2. Have you treated for flukes yet by using Prazipro?

Flukes in a fish's eye would look like what you see below:

See the little white things in the eye??

 

[melypr1985]

Check his eye for the flukes, but I'm betting on the trigger for this one. That looks pretty bad.

 

[Humblefish]

What kind of trigger is it and how big?

 

[4FordFamily]

I agree I'm betting on trigger as well, although I have seen copper on rare occasions "lead to" cloudy eyes but I've long suspected something else was afoot and it was actually an infection from whatever ailment I was treating to begin with.

 

[Bryce Peterson]

What kind of trigger is it and how big?

Blue throat trigger about 4" long. I transferred them from the copper today. I was going to do a prazipro treatment, but was wondering if an antibiotic would be better to do first.

 

[melypr1985]

Blue throat trigger about 4" long. I transferred them from the copper today. I was going to do a prazipro treatment, but was wondering if an antibiotic would be better to do first.

If the eye is actually popped out, it may not heal to a point where the fish can use it again. BUT, antibiotics are a good idea to keep the infection from spreading. Kanaplex is a good one for eye infections and so is NGP nitrofuracin green powder I believe.

 

[Bryce Peterson]

I think the plan now is to finish a full round of antibiotics and then do the prazipro. I have a porcupine puffer, niger trigger and zebra moray coming Tuesday. Question: since I only have 2 of my original fish left, and my tank has another 45 days fallow, should I have them go through qt with the new fish? The benefit would be adding everyone to the dt at the same time, and the convenience of only running 1 qt. The concerns I have with that, are whether or not the fish could be sickened by going through cupramine treatment twice, and the possibility of the old fish contaminating the new ones. They have not gone through a prazipro treatment yet.

 

[melypr1985]

The concerns I have with that, are whether or not the fish could be sickened by going through cupramine treatment twice, and the possibility of the old fish contaminating the new ones. They have not gone through a prazipro treatment yet.

These are exactly the reasons not to combine them.. It's ideal to run them in separate QT's. Well, Ideal for the fish, not for you I'm sure. :)

 

[Bryce Peterson]

These are exactly the reasons not to combine them.. It's ideal to run them in separate QT's. Well, Ideal for the fish, not for you I'm sure. :)

Yeah, that's the way I was leaning. As always, I respect and appreciate your advice :)