I got a beautiful purple tang from TSM Aquatics last week. Normally I proactively treat with copper power and prazi pro. TSM supposedly does a proactive QT and treatment, but just to be on the safe side I've kept the tang in a QT tank for observation without proactive treatment and was going to treat if anything popped up. It looked fine when it arrived - active swimming and eating mysis. However a couple of days after arrival, I noticed that one of it's eyes was protruding really far out. It was only one eye, and didn't appear to be cloudy or anything. Fish was still swimming and eating. I did have to grab it with a net the day before the swelling showed up, so there's a chance there could have been a trauma or injury. Best pic I could get of it below.
2 days later, the whole eye doesn't look quite as swollen. But it looks like some of the swelling has moved into a small bubble looking thing at the top of it's eye. Other eye still looking normal, no cloudiness. A few pics of what it looks like now:
With the eye originally being swollen, I was thinking it was pop eye and was going to maintain good water quality, dose some epsom salt, and maybe treat with ap em erythromycin per some info I found on this forum. But now the eye looks completely different. I guess my question is - with what it looks like now (large protrusion at the top of the eye rather than the whole eye), is this what pop eye healing looks like? Or does this mean it's maybe something else now and I should consider a different course of treatment? Any thoughts would be greatly appreciated!
2 days later, the whole eye doesn't look quite as swollen. But it looks like some of the swelling has moved into a small bubble looking thing at the top of it's eye. Other eye still looking normal, no cloudiness. A few pics of what it looks like now:
With the eye originally being swollen, I was thinking it was pop eye and was going to maintain good water quality, dose some epsom salt, and maybe treat with ap em erythromycin per some info I found on this forum. But now the eye looks completely different. I guess my question is - with what it looks like now (large protrusion at the top of the eye rather than the whole eye), is this what pop eye healing looks like? Or does this mean it's maybe something else now and I should consider a different course of treatment? Any thoughts would be greatly appreciated!
