Bubble in eye

[NoFishing]

Hi All, my Dwarf Gourami had what appeared to be a tiny bubble in one of his eyes. It started a couple of weeks ago and has since got worse. I am wondering if there is anything as all that can be done about it? When it started his eye was still clear, but now it's turned opaque.

Here is a pic of both his eyes, so you can see the difference

Good eye

Bad eye

Cheers

[Adrienne]

Could be pop eye in a smaller version, could be caused by an injury or the fish may have gone blind in that eye. Generally if its pop eye or caused by a not too major injury it will resolve itself with clean water. If bacterial it may spread to the other eye.

[binu]

try fuvan 2 its an antibiotic ll solve hopefully ..my beta ad same problem its ok now

[NoFishing]

Thanks guys. At least it sounds a little hopeful for him.

I don't have any Furan, but I do have some Melafix so can't hurt to add some of that into the tank.

Cheers

[binu]

hey frnd ..from my experience melafix is useless ...didnt worked for my fish at all..i treated my fish wth melafix for 2 weeks still was worse but fuvan fixed it n 3 days ..

[Adrienne]

Melafix does sometimes work on it and it is worth giving it a try. If its bacterial then generally it is both eyes affected and thats when you need something stronger. I wouldn't mess around with a carcinogen like furan until I had tried alternative methods.

[alanmin4304]

Wunder tonic contains a mixture of ingredients, most of which may work.

[NoFishing]

Well after almost 2 weeks now, 1 week with Melafix, followed up with the recommended 4 days of Furan 2, I can now report back that his eye is no better. :dunno: He is now back in the main tank and life goes on for him I guess. Except it took him a good couple of hours to assert his dominance once more after my little sunset gourami decided he was in charge for the past 2 weeks.

I figure it can't be bacterial now since neither of the two medications had any effect so hopefully it will not spread to the other eye.