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Pet Forum / Aquaria / Goldfish / January 2004causes of popeye?
What causes pop-eye in telescopes? I now have 2 fish in my hospital tank, both missing eyes. They seemed fine, then there they were (or were not...). I have one more black moor in my big tank. The rest of the fish are one oranda and 3 ryukin (90g, and none of the fish are full grown). I have no salt in the tank. Should I add some (to the 90g). I would like to keep my remaining telescope from suffering the same fate. I am treating the other 2 with Melafix and Medi-gold. They seem okay, other than the big hole where their eye once was. The first one is almost healed over, and I found the second one yesterday. How common is this? I like the telescopes and was thinking of adding another one, but not if this is going to keep happening. Tammy <>{ Are you sure they actually had popeye? Did they have signs of it before you noticed the eyes were gone? Have you checked your water parameters (ammonia, nitrite, nitrate etc)? Is there any chance that something else is removing the eyes? You don't have a pleco in there do you? Sometimes very strong filtration can suck eyes out, or an uncovered inlet to the filter. Mel. > What causes pop-eye in telescopes? I now have 2 fish in my hospital tank, > both missing eyes. They seemed fine, then there they were (or were not...). [quoted text clipped - 10 lines] > > Tammy <>{ right, popeye is not loss of the eye. due to toxic water conditions, mechanical damage or one of your fish is an eye eater. Ingrid >Are you sure they actually had popeye? Did they have signs of it before you >noticed the eyes were gone? [quoted text clipped - 3 lines] >or an uncovered inlet to the filter. >Mel ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ List Manager: Puregold Goldfish List http://puregold.aquaria.net/ www.drsolo.com Solve the problem, dont waste energy finding who's to blame ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Unfortunately, I receive no money, gifts, discounts or other compensation for all the damn work I do, nor for any of the endorsements or recommendations I make. There are only goldfish in that tank - 3 ryukin, one oranda and 3 telescopes. The telescopes always seemed to hang out by themselves. There aren't alot of decorations, either. Filter? Maybe... I will have to look into that since I do want a few more telescopes. Thanks, all. |
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