I have 7 orange chromides and they are all doing very well except for the one male. His one eye that looks like it's popping outwards. Is this a disease or just something genetically wrong with him. The water ph is 7.5 and I add a little salt to the water as well.
what salt are you adding . marine or normal aquarium ? is his behaiviour normal or does it tend to stay at the bottom against glass ? i recently lost all my chromides to a simalar eye pop and redining of the scales check all your paramaters and check for poisons in the water ,dead debris ,fish etc I quarenteened my scats and monos and left the sick fish in the tank and lost them all
I'm using normal aquarium salt and only the one chromide has the pop eye. He stays most of the time near the top of the tank in the corner. He is eating well and looking good otherwise. Should I rather seperate him or is it too late?
I'll do it when I get home. I have 7 chromides and as luck would have it , now that they have matured, six of them are males and only one female. So I will need to rehome at least 4 of the males.
Use one heaped spoon of salt per liter water in a bucket.Put him in there for at most 2 minutes.Put him then in a quarantine tank. He will be very disoriented but will come right after a while. Note that this is an extreme measure. But he will die off if you dont do something drastically. Hope for the best and make sure the water quality in the quarantine tank is top notch.
I has a large parrot fish with pop eye. I treated him with medication in a hospital tank for three weeks and he came right. The day I decided to return him to the main tank, I returned from work to find him lying next to the tank. He had knocked the cover off and jumped out. The only time I ever had a fish recover in the hospital tank and this had to happen.
Yes Gareth, it's heart breaking, especially when you've watched it grow up over the years. Anyway, I replaced him. The new Parrot has grown up to almost the same size. Hope I have better luck with this one.
