I've been reading up a bit on this, and there seems to be a phenomina occuring in my tank that has me suspicious of something, but Im not exactly sure of what. About three months ago, I noticed that one of the chalk bass in my tank showed signs of an injury to its eye. The eye protruded from the fishes head quite a bit (seemingly overnight) but it was limited to one eye, which appeared to have a "scratch" across the eye (no clouding or haziness). Since it was after introducing a few other fish and limited to one eye, I attributed the incident to an injury, The eye healed and receded back into the fishes head in ~3 weeks completely. It appears to be no worse for wear now.
A month ago, I noticed that my female swallowtail angel was exhibiting similar symptoms, even though her eye did not bulge out of her head as noticably as the chalk basses' did. Still, same symptoms - scratch across the eye, however this time the eye became cloudy and still appears to be that way, even though the "scratch" has healed over and the eye receded back to its normal state. I again attributed this issue to an injury since the fish was newly introduced and I have a few territorial fishes ( kole tang, yellow tang, goldrim tang and two bar rabbitfish) that would exhibit flarings and flashings upon "bed time". Seems easy enough to get stuck by someone in there. She still has the cloudy eye, but does not appear to have flukes based on the freshwater dip I've done.
Wednesday night I noted that I hadnt seen my twinspot hogfish in a few days. After a heavy feeding yesterday of blackworms and mysis, he popped out of the rock work, and lo and behold - scratch on the same eye as the other two and the eye is bulging out of his little fishy skull. He ate like a little pig and then zipped back into the rocks to hide. This seems too coincidental to be considered an injury, so Im wondering if perhaps there is some kind of parasite that Im dealing with? Or do I have a very specific violent tendancy in one of my fish? The hogfish show the same symptoms on the same eye as the other two, with the only difference being that it appears that on the "back" of the bulging eyeball there is a small spot that resembles an air bubble. I cant tell if its a real spot, or just the light reflecting off of the lens of the eye (he moves around quite a bit)
Thoughts? I'll attempt to get a picture up tonight, assuming he cooperates.
A month ago, I noticed that my female swallowtail angel was exhibiting similar symptoms, even though her eye did not bulge out of her head as noticably as the chalk basses' did. Still, same symptoms - scratch across the eye, however this time the eye became cloudy and still appears to be that way, even though the "scratch" has healed over and the eye receded back to its normal state. I again attributed this issue to an injury since the fish was newly introduced and I have a few territorial fishes ( kole tang, yellow tang, goldrim tang and two bar rabbitfish) that would exhibit flarings and flashings upon "bed time". Seems easy enough to get stuck by someone in there. She still has the cloudy eye, but does not appear to have flukes based on the freshwater dip I've done.
Wednesday night I noted that I hadnt seen my twinspot hogfish in a few days. After a heavy feeding yesterday of blackworms and mysis, he popped out of the rock work, and lo and behold - scratch on the same eye as the other two and the eye is bulging out of his little fishy skull. He ate like a little pig and then zipped back into the rocks to hide. This seems too coincidental to be considered an injury, so Im wondering if perhaps there is some kind of parasite that Im dealing with? Or do I have a very specific violent tendancy in one of my fish? The hogfish show the same symptoms on the same eye as the other two, with the only difference being that it appears that on the "back" of the bulging eyeball there is a small spot that resembles an air bubble. I cant tell if its a real spot, or just the light reflecting off of the lens of the eye (he moves around quite a bit)
Thoughts? I'll attempt to get a picture up tonight, assuming he cooperates.
