Ira Posted January 1, 2003 Report Share Posted January 1, 2003 Yesterday I noticed he had popeye, but I didn't do anything about it. There's not too much you can do anyway, is there? Today I checked on him and his eye...Ummm...Had popped. Must have been horrible for the poor little guy, so I threw him in a glass of cold water and put him in the freezer. Down to 3 of them. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Caryl Posted January 1, 2003 Report Share Posted January 1, 2003 Sorry to hear that. I have never had a fish with popeye. What causes it? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pegasus Posted January 1, 2003 Report Share Posted January 1, 2003 A buildup of gas behind the eye, or physical injury, but no reason to place the fish in a cryogenic state. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ira Posted January 1, 2003 Author Report Share Posted January 1, 2003 It is a reason, in my opinion, if the eye bursts, Pegasus. As in like a pimple, the iris of the eye flapping around freely with just a large gaping hole behind. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Goldie Posted January 2, 2003 Report Share Posted January 2, 2003 Sounds like it may have been an injury Ira. What makes you think it is popeye??? I ask because a friend had a (sorry to say the word) discus whose eye sorta popped and it had been injured escaping a plec. She medicated and although the fish is blind now he healed well. The plec went back to the store. She also had a d......s injure itself on a log and that too healed with help - that one retained the sight it seems. Maybe the discus are just a hardier bunch :roll: However back to being serious .........I am sorry you lost a fish that is always hard Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ira Posted January 2, 2003 Author Report Share Posted January 2, 2003 I know it was popeye instead of an injury because the eye was bulging out for a few days before it burst. May have been running into something that actually tore open the eye, but it would have been nice and protected if it wasn't bulging out. Discus are a hell of a lot bigger than threadfin rainbows, they're only an inch or two long. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
macka Posted January 2, 2003 Report Share Posted January 2, 2003 Goldie remember that my female oscar poped her eye, and the vet fixed it up, but the reason behind that is that two to three days prior to spawning, she always produces to much of a certain hormone. As for popeye I thought doing a water change helped, or melafix, or a needle pearched into the swelling would relieve a fish of this alignment a bit (not brave enough to do this), Dont surpose this would be easy to do on a threadfin rainbow. Years ago i had a kribensis that would get popeye but then the swelling would go down and up and down and up etc never worked out why :-? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pegasus Posted January 2, 2003 Report Share Posted January 2, 2003 About a month ago my wife was touching my fish as they swam back and forth between her fingers. I asked her to stop, and gave it no more thought, but later noticed that my large adult sailfin mollie with only one eye had it's other eye hanging out of it's head. It looked hopeless, and the fish was swimming around in a daze, not sure which way to go. It seemed my wife's nail had caught it's eye as, on inspection there was a slight mark above the eye. I treated the wound with a salt bath, then again over three days, and the "one eyed" mollie is back to it's normal self, and has since dropped around a hundred young. The lesson here I suppose is that any fish is worth "SOME" attempt to save it, and even when things look hopeless, there is still the chance that the life of the fish will be saved. I don't name my fish, but I value each and every one of them, even the fry. Bill (Pegasus) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Goldie Posted January 2, 2003 Report Share Posted January 2, 2003 Of course I remember macka, the vet was so thrilled to be treating a fish How is the Oscar now??? nice one Pegasus, my friend in Texas used the salt bath to treat her discus too. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Midas Posted January 2, 2003 Report Share Posted January 2, 2003 I'm surprised one of the other fish didn't try to eat it if it was flapping around, mine would have for sure. I have had two fish that have had eyes ripped out by other fish, a kissing gourami and more recently a pleco which I posted about earlier. The pleco seems fine with only one eye. Not so the kissing gourami though, had to put it down as it seemed extremly distressed, swimming around in circles near the water surface. I thought that freezing fish to death was not good practice? Isn't a more sudden way of death more humane? e.g. sharp object through the head? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
john1 Posted January 2, 2003 Report Share Posted January 2, 2003 Hi Pegasus What would you call that, Bubbleye or popeye? John Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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