Powder Blue Tang, eye ingury or disease?

[Kpony11]

Hi there and thank you in advance for any input!

I got a powder blue tang 3 and a half weeks ago from my lfs, they informed me that a customer brought it in because he was tearing down his tank. He looked nice and healthy so i picked him up. Upon bringing him home and inspecting him in QT i noticed one eye was super damaged looking, cloudy, almost no iris, a little different shape even, i was sure i didnt see that at the store but maybe i only saw one side of him the whole time. I did a 5 min RO dip to check for flukes and saw nothing, then dosed seachems paragaurd in the 5 gallon QT and let him stew for an hour. There seemed to be no side effects and the eye was the same so i put him in the tank and hes been happy ever since. BUT his eye is still really bad looking, first off im hoping it is not a parasite that is slow to show symptoms and the paragaurd didnt have time to work on because i have many other fish in the 120 with him. And also im wondering if he could lose his eye and what i would have to do about it! But like i said ive had him for 3 and a half weeks and it may have gotten a little bit worse but the rest of him is healthy looking as are all the rest of the fish. Thank you

 

[Flippers4pups]

Dosent look like "popeye". Even with the freshwater dip, if it's Flukes in the eye, they wouldn't drop off.

#reefsquad @4FordFamily, @Humblefish

 

[4FordFamily]

That looks like damage to the eye, rather than disease. You may end up with a cyclops. Keep an eye on it if it worsens, treat with the “trifecta” of antibiotics in a QT for 10-14 days: furan 2, kanaplex, and metroplex.

 

[HotRocks]

That looks like damage to the eye, rather than disease. You may end up with a cyclops. Keep an eye on it if it worsens, treat with the “trifecta” of antibiotics in a QT for 10-14 days: furan 2, kanaplex, and metroplex.

Agree^^^
For what it's worth.

 

[Kpony11]

Dosent look like "popeye". Even with the freshwater dip, if it's Flukes in the eye, they wouldn't drop off.

#reefsquad @4FordFamily, @Humblefish

What would you suggest for flukes at that point?

 

[Kpony11]

That looks like damage to the eye, rather than disease. You may end up with a cyclops. Keep an eye on it if it worsens, treat with the “trifecta” of antibiotics in a QT for 10-14 days: furan 2, kanaplex, and metroplex.

Awesome thank you for that! So those products would be good to keep around for wound care? Ill have to look up cyclops fish to prepare myself lol

 

[4FordFamily]

Awesome thank you for that! So those products would be good to keep around for wound care? Ill have to look up cyclops fish to prepare myself lol

Just soak foods in selcon, zoecon, or vita chem. Keep water clean.

 

[Humblefish]

Is he still in QT? If so, dosing erythromycin for 10 days might be worth a shot just in case it's an eye infection.