Hi
My Black Moor has one eye that appears more bulgy than normal.
My fish had a pout of whitespot about 3-4weeks ago when I added a new goldfish and the Black moor with the bulgy eye got it pretty bad and had white spot on the same eye that has now protruded.
Current stats
PH 7.5
nitrite 0
ammonia 0
nitrate 10
I have 4 fancy goldfish in a 42 gallon tank I introduced the 4th about 3-4weeks ago. I have a 119gallon tank being custom build at the mo coming in 2-3 weeks. So it was only a short time of allowing the fish to be overstocked (but showing how badly this can affect the fish, I regret not waiting till I got the new tank to introduce the new fish (lesson learnt). So my question is how can I treat the popeye (if this is what I suspect it is). To hand I only had melafix and this list as one of the things it treats. So I dosed today. Waterchange yesterday 50%. I always do large weekly waterchanges. This was when I first noticed the black moor eye. He is the largest of my fancy goldfish at 2-3years old I adopted him so not sure of exact age, he is about 6inches long, his tank mates are 3-4inches and nearly a year old. My tank is heavily filters with 350 eheim external canister filter 620lphr I also have two internal filters on it at the mo 2012 Eheim pick up and a pf2 interpret filter (cause I knew I was overstocked so I added more to help keep stats down)
I have had no water quality probs all stats been good recently I suspect this might be a secondary infection caused by a whitespot parasite getting into the eye. I have been whitespot clear for 4weeks since treatment symptom free. What should I use to treat this swollen eye the black moor now has. Will Melafix be enough if it says it treats it on the label.
Cheers any help will be appericiated.
Emma
My Black Moor has one eye that appears more bulgy than normal.
My fish had a pout of whitespot about 3-4weeks ago when I added a new goldfish and the Black moor with the bulgy eye got it pretty bad and had white spot on the same eye that has now protruded.
Current stats
PH 7.5
nitrite 0
ammonia 0
nitrate 10
I have 4 fancy goldfish in a 42 gallon tank I introduced the 4th about 3-4weeks ago. I have a 119gallon tank being custom build at the mo coming in 2-3 weeks. So it was only a short time of allowing the fish to be overstocked (but showing how badly this can affect the fish, I regret not waiting till I got the new tank to introduce the new fish (lesson learnt). So my question is how can I treat the popeye (if this is what I suspect it is). To hand I only had melafix and this list as one of the things it treats. So I dosed today. Waterchange yesterday 50%. I always do large weekly waterchanges. This was when I first noticed the black moor eye. He is the largest of my fancy goldfish at 2-3years old I adopted him so not sure of exact age, he is about 6inches long, his tank mates are 3-4inches and nearly a year old. My tank is heavily filters with 350 eheim external canister filter 620lphr I also have two internal filters on it at the mo 2012 Eheim pick up and a pf2 interpret filter (cause I knew I was overstocked so I added more to help keep stats down)
I have had no water quality probs all stats been good recently I suspect this might be a secondary infection caused by a whitespot parasite getting into the eye. I have been whitespot clear for 4weeks since treatment symptom free. What should I use to treat this swollen eye the black moor now has. Will Melafix be enough if it says it treats it on the label.
Cheers any help will be appericiated.
Emma
