Sidman24
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My new firemouth I bought from the store has pop eye... So I don't know the cause. What should I do to make it better ?
I would leave him where he is and wait out the treatment.
I think that if you catch it in time, it clears up most of the time.
as I'm sure you know pop eye is caused by prolonged exposure to bad water, I'm this case it came from the supplier. It clears up on its own generally within about a month. Just keep his tank nice and clean! Hope he gets better!I didn't notice it till after I brought the fish home. So I know it came from their water being bad quality, not mine. Hopefully he can get better with my water and some melafix
Pop eye can be caused by afew things, bacterial infections, parasites, eye trauma (usually in one eye) and also bad water. Any heavy breathing going on? You can add aquarium salt but it wont cure the cause of the pop eye. If you cant diagnose it and it doesnt clear up with clean water or it gets worse i would start by treating with an anti bacterial med as soon as you can. *edit* yep like melafix!
Are his scales coming off? Is it a grayish patch?
Ah! Poor guy! It looks like he has ich. Melafix won't cure ich, so you will have to go to your LFS and get some ich medication. You will also want to raise the temperature very slowly to no higher than 86 degrees F. Raise it only a degree every few hours. Raising the temp will help cure the ich faster by speeding up the life cycle of the ich.
Oh gosh!! I was thinking that the poor guy had ich really bad! Oops! Sorry about that!Oh no that's not ich! Haha. Those are marks on the glass and air bubbles XD
Oh gosh!! I was thinking that the poor guy had ich really bad! Oops! Sorry about that!