SnoopDoggyDoge
Aquarium Advice Newbie
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- Sep 13, 2017
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Hello! Help, I am new to the forum and I have joined because I'm really worried
I have 3 Shubunkin in a 90 gallon tank that has been set up for a month, but had previously been unoccupied for a year. I restarted it fine. My dad set up this filter, its like a smaller fish tank under the tank that sets it through a wetdry filter. I did a 30% water change after finding out this happened and vacuumed the gravel. I would be doing this once a month. The fish are all a month old, and I acclimated them by putting them in the bag in, than releasing them after 20 min. I haven't added anything new, and I feed them tetra goldfish flakes along with peas.
The smallest guy out of the bunch had developed popeye in its right eye. I had isolated them in a bucket and tested my tank water, and filled the medical bucket with fresh treated water prior to isolating the fish. Than I ran a bubbler to it, and did the standard bag thing to help the isolated fish change environments and did a test for both tanks. Both tank and bucket I had were normal, (0 nitrate, 0 nitrite, 25 hardnesss, 0 chlorine, 40 alkalinity and 6.8 ph) I let the fish sit in the bucket for a few days as I tried to find Maracyn+, only to find Maracyn 2 and immediately treated it by giving it half packets every 24 hrs for 5 days with a water change on the 3rd day. However, it just clouded the water and the popeye is still there. I had to put him back in the main tank and I was told it should be ok as it seems like there's no viral infection, as the other fish are perfectly healthy and aren't hurt.
The fish in qustion seems to just have popeye, leading me to believe that it was just a physical alteration, as it is the runt of the tank but I don't know what to do now. Will he be ok? Should I do anything else? Below are current photos of the fish in question. sorry for lack of photos, he's been hiding his bad eye.
https://imgur.com/YQfbjGh
https://imgur.com/W6wYBoF
https://imgur.com/XipSGVB
I have 3 Shubunkin in a 90 gallon tank that has been set up for a month, but had previously been unoccupied for a year. I restarted it fine. My dad set up this filter, its like a smaller fish tank under the tank that sets it through a wetdry filter. I did a 30% water change after finding out this happened and vacuumed the gravel. I would be doing this once a month. The fish are all a month old, and I acclimated them by putting them in the bag in, than releasing them after 20 min. I haven't added anything new, and I feed them tetra goldfish flakes along with peas.
The smallest guy out of the bunch had developed popeye in its right eye. I had isolated them in a bucket and tested my tank water, and filled the medical bucket with fresh treated water prior to isolating the fish. Than I ran a bubbler to it, and did the standard bag thing to help the isolated fish change environments and did a test for both tanks. Both tank and bucket I had were normal, (0 nitrate, 0 nitrite, 25 hardnesss, 0 chlorine, 40 alkalinity and 6.8 ph) I let the fish sit in the bucket for a few days as I tried to find Maracyn+, only to find Maracyn 2 and immediately treated it by giving it half packets every 24 hrs for 5 days with a water change on the 3rd day. However, it just clouded the water and the popeye is still there. I had to put him back in the main tank and I was told it should be ok as it seems like there's no viral infection, as the other fish are perfectly healthy and aren't hurt.
The fish in qustion seems to just have popeye, leading me to believe that it was just a physical alteration, as it is the runt of the tank but I don't know what to do now. Will he be ok? Should I do anything else? Below are current photos of the fish in question. sorry for lack of photos, he's been hiding his bad eye.
https://imgur.com/YQfbjGh
https://imgur.com/W6wYBoF
https://imgur.com/XipSGVB
