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I just got home from picking up a super healthy Achilles tang and while I'm setting up everything and testing the QT I look at my shark as she was near me. I noticed her eyes look a little clouded and a red area in her eye. Anything I can do?

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I just got home from picking up a super healthy Achilles tang and while I'm setting up everything and testing the QT I look at my shark as she was near me. I noticed her eyes look a little clouded and a red area in her eye. Anything I can do?

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You might want to get a few more opinions here, but it looks like something may be picking at it. I formerly had my sharks in my pool with a pretty wide assortment of fish, and noticed this exact thing. The sharks were in there for about a year and a half before I had any issues. After watching for a bit, I saw the culprit (small 3" pale lipped tang - fairly new addition) slowly approaching one of the sharks and picking at her eye. I wound up removing the sharks and placing them in a separate pool, as the tang was becoming pretty relentless about it. Because I have so many other fish in the pool, I figured that I would play it safe and relocate the sharks to separate systems rather than removing the tang, only to have another fish start doing the exact same thing.
 
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Well I just found out how and now I'm even more worried. I got the tank for her. She is randomly shaking her head and almost jumped out of the tank.
 

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Well I just found out how and now I'm even more worried. I got the tank for her. She is randomly shaking her head and almost jumped out of the tank.

Do you have access to a voltage meter? If not, you can grab one from most hardware stores at a fairly reasonable price (IMO an essential piece of equipment when keeping sharks). I would start by testing your tank for stray voltage (sharks are extremely sensitive to it). A fluke infestation may be another possibility that will cause head shaking, but I would start with testing for stray current first.
 

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