Thanks again @Humblefish for your help with my Pop Eye Wrasse.
To bring everyone else up to speed. I received a Golden Rhombroid Wrasse from a non-local lfs. The fish had been delivered with a Pop Eye and presumably was injured during shipping.
Upon arrival, the lfs put the fish through a round of prazi and then it was placed in their main system which runs with a low level of copper.
The fish remained in the lfs for a month. No one wanted a fish with pop eye (so sad!).
Fast forward to now...I reached out to @Humblefish for advice on how to treat this fish. The fish is eating, shows no other signs of injury, disease, or trauma. The pop eye itself was clear and showed no signs of cloudiness.
Per the advice I received, I have been treating the fish for about 7 days now. He is in a 10gl IM10 tank. All filter media, aside from filter floss has been removed.
Day 1 - Added 2 tbs of Epson Salt to help ease the swelling. Began first package of Erythromycin. Began to drop the temperature from 78 to a recommended temperature of 74-75. Also began to lower salinity from 1.026 to 1.017. The purpose of these last 2 steps is to help reduce the metabolic demands on the fish and slow the eye infection.
Day 2 - Added next dose of Erythromycin. Dropped temp to 76.5 and dropped salinity to 1.023
Day 3 - 25% water change. Dosed 2 tbs of Epsom Salt. Lowered tank temp to 75. Salinity now sits at 1.020
Day 4 - Dosed Erythromycin. Final temp drop to 74. Fish is doing good, eating well. The eye doesnt appear as swollen.
Day 5 - Temp level maintained. Salinity drop to 1.017. Dosed Erythromycin.
Day 6 - Temp/Salinity maintained. 25% waterchange. Dosed 2tbs of Epsom Salt and dosed Erythromycin.
Day 7 - Erythromycin dosed. Temp/Salinity Maintained.
You may have noticed that I didn't do a sudden drop in temp or Salinity. Here is my thinking, Wrasse are sensitive to Copper to begin with (and in my opinion should not be treated with cooper unless it is warranted and closely monitored), and this wrasse sat in copper for a month. So not only was he acclimating to a copper free environment, he was also going through temp and salinity changes. So to minimize any unneccessary perceived stress, I took the slow approach and so far it is paying off.
Here is a pic of the Pop Eye originally.
Will post an updated pic soon.
This has been an interesting journey thus far and I have learned quite a bit from Bobby! The fish has one more round of Erythromycin left and will then run him through some Minocycline. I would have actually run the Minocycline and Erythromycin at the same time, but had to wait on shipping.
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To bring everyone else up to speed. I received a Golden Rhombroid Wrasse from a non-local lfs. The fish had been delivered with a Pop Eye and presumably was injured during shipping.
Upon arrival, the lfs put the fish through a round of prazi and then it was placed in their main system which runs with a low level of copper.
The fish remained in the lfs for a month. No one wanted a fish with pop eye (so sad!).
Fast forward to now...I reached out to @Humblefish for advice on how to treat this fish. The fish is eating, shows no other signs of injury, disease, or trauma. The pop eye itself was clear and showed no signs of cloudiness.
Per the advice I received, I have been treating the fish for about 7 days now. He is in a 10gl IM10 tank. All filter media, aside from filter floss has been removed.
Day 1 - Added 2 tbs of Epson Salt to help ease the swelling. Began first package of Erythromycin. Began to drop the temperature from 78 to a recommended temperature of 74-75. Also began to lower salinity from 1.026 to 1.017. The purpose of these last 2 steps is to help reduce the metabolic demands on the fish and slow the eye infection.
Day 2 - Added next dose of Erythromycin. Dropped temp to 76.5 and dropped salinity to 1.023
Day 3 - 25% water change. Dosed 2 tbs of Epsom Salt. Lowered tank temp to 75. Salinity now sits at 1.020
Day 4 - Dosed Erythromycin. Final temp drop to 74. Fish is doing good, eating well. The eye doesnt appear as swollen.
Day 5 - Temp level maintained. Salinity drop to 1.017. Dosed Erythromycin.
Day 6 - Temp/Salinity maintained. 25% waterchange. Dosed 2tbs of Epsom Salt and dosed Erythromycin.
Day 7 - Erythromycin dosed. Temp/Salinity Maintained.
You may have noticed that I didn't do a sudden drop in temp or Salinity. Here is my thinking, Wrasse are sensitive to Copper to begin with (and in my opinion should not be treated with cooper unless it is warranted and closely monitored), and this wrasse sat in copper for a month. So not only was he acclimating to a copper free environment, he was also going through temp and salinity changes. So to minimize any unneccessary perceived stress, I took the slow approach and so far it is paying off.
Here is a pic of the Pop Eye originally.
Will post an updated pic soon.
This has been an interesting journey thus far and I have learned quite a bit from Bobby! The fish has one more round of Erythromycin left and will then run him through some Minocycline. I would have actually run the Minocycline and Erythromycin at the same time, but had to wait on shipping.
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