Pop eye on established Hippo

[willisd]

Hi all,

I have a hippo tang that has randomly appeared with pop eye today. This was not present yesterday and appears to be only on one eye. Apologies for the dirty glass in the photos/video:

I will say this fish is a chronic bafoon and is frequently jamming itself in the smallest tightest spots possible. I am thinking this is likely some degree of self inflicted injury. My worry is any attempts to catch him for treatment may injure and stress him more

To be complete my levels are :
Ammonia/nitrite : 0
Salenity - 34 ppt
Alk - 8.5
Nitrate ~ 15

Tank - reefer 1000 (250ish gallons)

Stocking:
Magnificent foxface (tank boss)
Flame angel (sub boss)
Hippo tang
Pyramid butterfly x 3
Leopard wrasse x 2
Lyretail x 7
Clown x 2
Mcorskers flasher wrasse
Long nose hawk

This fish has been with me for 2ish years and I have “cured” or managed ich on him in the past. I do plan to replace my UV bulb/sheild tomorrow with my water change proactively.

I am also ordering more selcon and Zoe to add to his food. He doesn’t seem to be having too much trouble getting to food or eating. I do feed 3 times per day

My question for the group is, what else can or should I do? I will post updates here in the coming weeks for future people who have a similar issue

Thanks
Willis

 

[vetteguy53081]

Hi all,

I have a hippo tang that has randomly appeared with pop eye today. This was not present yesterday and appears to be only on one eye. Apologies for the dirty glass in the photos/video:

I will say this fish is a chronic bafoon and is frequently jamming itself in the smallest tightest spots possible. I am thinking this is likely some degree of self inflicted injury. My worry is any attempts to catch him for treatment may injure and stress him more

To be complete my levels are :
Ammonia/nitrite : 0
Salenity - 34 ppt
Alk - 8.5
Nitrate ~ 15

Tank - reefer 1000 (250ish gallons)

Stocking:
Magnificent foxface (tank boss)
Flame angel (sub boss)
Hippo tang
Pyramid butterfly x 3
Leopard wrasse x 2
Lyretail x 7
Clown x 2
Mcorskers flasher wrasse
Long nose hawk

This fish has been with me for 2ish years and I have “cured” or managed ich on him in the past. I do plan to replace my UV bulb/sheild tomorrow with my water change proactively.

I am also ordering more selcon and Zoe to add to his food. He doesn’t seem to be having too much trouble getting to food or eating. I do feed 3 times per day

My question for the group is, what else can or should I do? I will post updates here in the coming weeks for future people who have a similar issue

Thanks
Willis

Seeing its one eye, Its likely an injury, best treated in a separate tank using maracyn as pictured below. In the future, please use white light intensity, no blue for best clarity and ID

 

[willisd]

My apologies, here are the best photos I could get in white with a yellow lense

Seeing its one eye, Its likely an injury, best treated in a separate tank using maracyn as pictured below. In the future, please use white light intensity, no blue for best clarity and ID

 

[vetteguy53081]

Thank you and appears to be mechanical injury

 

[willisd]

An update for everyone, because when I searched the threads online it was difficult to see progression.

I swapped my UV bulb/sheild and have been feeding selcon with the food and upped the frequency to 3x per day

The eye was looking much better yesterday and looks about 75% returned to normal today.

If things get worse or spread I am going to look into treatment in a separate tank but for now the natural recovery is working out