mouse Posted April 24, 2004 Report Share Posted April 24, 2004 Three days ago one of my discus just went plain crazy, fighting, attacking everything from its own shaddow to the log of wood. He sadly killed my pigeon discus and so I put a partician in the tank to seperate him. At this stage I could not see what or why he had "lost the plot" as all the discus had been togeather for a couple of months or more living peacefully. Tonight I managed to move him to another tank on his own. To my amazement he only had one eye so at some stage (perhaps 3 days ago) he lost it hence ????his real crazy behaviour. He is still fighting everything... glass, plants etc.. He has a bit of white fungus where the eye was so I have treated him and I am hopeing that he will calm down and be ok. Has anyone else got a one eyed discus and experienced any problems with them??? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
suemack Posted April 24, 2004 Report Share Posted April 24, 2004 hiya mouse Sorry to hear about your pigeon discus. .....hey have you tested your pH in the tank recently? I was reading about a pH crash sending fish into a total panic type behaviour. Friend of mine has a one-eyed cichlid and he has no problems in the tank.....she just makes sure that there's nothing aggro in there with him. good luck sue Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris.L Posted April 24, 2004 Report Share Posted April 24, 2004 I have a one eyed discus. The thing with mine is that he lost his 'bubble' around the eye. This happened when the LFS worker was catching him. He doesn't have any of the symptoms that you said, he mainly gets picked on by my other discus. Chris- Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joze Posted April 24, 2004 Report Share Posted April 24, 2004 one of my oscars lost an eye, he is in a tank on his own until it heals completely, I found the cause yesterday, one of the little buggers had smashed a floating thermometer in the tank. Turns out a visiting 5yo decided to change them and removed the floating pool thermometer I keep in there. Since I have been really sick lately its been an effort to go downstairs to the tank and the other half has been feeding and doing the water changes. Unfortunately he is not a fishy person and didnt realise that anything remotely breakable is a no-no in the oscar tank. Someone had even taken out the ping pong balls in the tank which were there to keep them occupied. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mouse Posted April 25, 2004 Author Report Share Posted April 25, 2004 Yes Sue I am constantly testing my PH... as I have had loads of trouble before. I now get my filtered water from Cat and test that most days. Glad to hear that someone else has a one eyed discus that is doing A-okay but sorry to hear he is the one getting picked on Chris.L although it seems that one has to be the "runt"... unfortunately. Know what you mean about kids Joze, just had my grandson 7yrs old staying for the last of the school holidays and his ears are sure painted on. He loves watching the different fish in different tanks but is so noisy and touches (bangs) the glass so he has kept me on my toes so he didnt stress out the poor fish. Hope you are feeling better soon... and your oscar too. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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