Blood Parrots eye is hanging out please help

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My blood parrot was fine last night. I come in this morning and his eye is hanging out. He lives with loaches and they are fine. Does anyone know what this is and what to do? He is five years old.
55 gallon tank running for five years. Tank at 79degrees. I dumped 70 percent of the tank yesterday for a normal weekly clean like I always do.
 

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There are a few causes of Pop-eye. Bacterial disease, Dropsy, injury, too many small air bubbles the fish swallows are all causes. If your fish started with this the day after the water change, there's a good chance he injured the eye during the change.
As for what to do, for now, keeping the water clean and feeding a good quality diet and time are the best you can do. No need to medicate if this is the result of injury.
This may also help you: https://cafishvet.com/fish-health-disease/fish-popeye/
 
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Hello, that looks to be an injury & shock. It may be from tank mate, a ruff edged decoration or hide. I use aquarium salt for injury's.
Since it's a fairly fresh wound I would separate to a bare cycled quarantine tank(most loach salt sensitive).Don't want to reinjure. Dose 1/2 teaspoon aquarium salt per gallon of tank volume & dissolve in tank water. Put salt in clean plastic jar with tank water & screw lid tight then shake. This will dissolve salt faster. Add 1/3 of solution every 30min so fish has time to acclimate to salt. If possible locate qt tank in quite, low traffic & dark area or darken tank. This will help with shock. You want to keep water as pristine as possible. So I would do a 25% water change every couple of days. Replacing any salt taken out from change.
Aquarium salt promotes slime coat, gill function, prevents fungal & bacterial infection. You may not be able to save eye but I have a couple of fish that do fine with one eye. If no improvement within 3-4 days I suggest trying an antibiotic. Hope this helps!!!!!
 
Hard to tell from the pictures but most likely physical damage due to the water change, something scared the fish and it injured its eye. Clean water and salt usually fix the problem.

Test the water for ammonia, nitrite, nitrate and pH.

Wipe the inside of the glass down with a clean fish sponge. This removes the biofilm on the glass and the biofilm will contain lots of harmful bacteria, fungus, protozoans and various other microscopic life forms.

Do a 75% water change and gravel clean the substrate every day for a week. The water changes and gravel cleaning will reduce the number of disease organisms in the water and provide a cleaner environment for the fish to recover in. It also removes a lot of the gunk and this means any medication can work on treating the fish instead of being wasted killing the pathogens in the gunk.
Make sure any new water is free of chlorine/ chloramine before it is added to the tank.

Clean the filter if it hasn't been done in the last 2 weeks. However, if the filter is less than 6 weeks old, do not clean it. Wash the filter materials/ media in a bucket of tank water and re-use the media. Tip the bucket of dirty water on the garden/ lawn. Cleaning the filter means less gunk and cleaner water with fewer pathogens so any medication (if needed) will work more effectively on the fish.

Increase surface turbulence/ aeration to maximise the dissolved oxygen in the water.

If the eye goes cloudy or there's no improvement after a couple of days, add some salt. You can also add salt straight away if you like.

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SALT
You can add rock salt (often sold as aquarium salt), swimming pool salt, or any non iodised salt (sodium chloride) to the aquarium at the dose rate of 1 heaped tablespoon per 20 litres of water. If there is no improvement after 48 hours you can double that dose rate so there is 2 heaped tablespoons of salt per 20 litres.

Keep the salt level like this for 1-2 weeks.

The salt will not affect the beneficial filter bacteria, fish, plants, shrimp or snails.

After you use salt and the fish have recovered, you do a 10% water change each day for a week using only fresh water that has been dechlorinated. Then do a 20% water change each day for a week. Then you can do bigger water changes after that. This dilutes the salt out of the tank slowly so it doesn't harm the fish.

If you do water changes while using salt, you need to treat the new water with salt before adding it to the tank. This will keep the salt level stable in the tank and minimise stress on the fish.

When you first add salt, add the salt to a small bucket of tank water and dissolve the salt. Then slowly pour the salt water into the tank near the filter outlet. Add the salt over a couple of minutes.
 
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