NIger trigger with pop eye

[Lance]

I can't remember the dosage for the salts, but you can find it on the Wet Web Media website. (type in pop eye and/or Epsom Salts in the Search box).
The sudden changes in salinity could very well have caused the problem.

[daniella3d]

I saw the dosage of 1tbs per 10 gallons on WWM but not sure if this is ok with coral in the tank?

I red on WWM that it will be ok for coral at small concentration..not sure if 1 tbs per 10 gallons is considered a "small concentration" though.

Originally Posted by Lance

I can't remember the dosage for the salts, but you can find it on the Wet Web Media website. (type in pop eye and/or Epsom Salts in the Search box).
The sudden changes in salinity could very well have caused the problem.

[Lance]

Originally Posted by daniella3d

I saw the dosage of 1tbs per 10 gallons on WWM but not sure if this is ok with coral in the tank?

I red on WWM that it will be ok for coral at small concentration..not sure if 1 tbs per 10 gallons is considered a "small concentration" though.

I just found a treatment of 1 tbs per 5 gallons is fine in a reef tank, so at 1 tbs per 10 gallons your corals should be fine.

[daniella3d]

How long did it take in your case to improve?

I am feeding him with food soaked in kanamycine as well. He eats everything no question asked.

Originally Posted by Lance

I just found a treatment of 1 tbs per 5 gallons is fine in a reef tank, so at 1 tbs per 10 gallons your corals should be fine.

[Lance]

Originally Posted by daniella3d

How long did it take in your case to improve?

I am feeding him with food soaked in kanamycine as well. He eats everything no question asked.

If it's a scratched eye it should heal pretty quickly; it did for me. 2 to 3 days. If it was caused by poor water conditions at the time of purchase it may take a little longer. Just guessing here though.

[daniella3d]

I don't know, maybe it was poor water condition from where he comes from. I am not going to buy any more fish from that LFS because they always have something. I have a blue tang in quarantine in the other tank in hyposalinity because he had ich, and it was exchanged as the first one also had ich and refused to eat. So it's the third fish I buy from that place and all of them had something wrong.

I am not sure it's going to resolve because he seemed to have something a bit whitish and reflective inside the eye before he started the pop eye, but we'll see with time. I will keep feeding him twice a day with bloodworms soaked in kanamycin and epsom salt is in the tank.

Originally Posted by Lance

If it's a scratched eye it should heal pretty quickly; it did for me. 2 to 3 days. If it was caused by poor water conditions at the time of purchase it may take a little longer. Just guessing here though.

[daniella3d]

After nearly 3 weeks in Paraguard the eye have cleared and I don't see the white thing inside anylonger. The pop eye has receided quite a bit but there is still some swelling as I can see one eye is larger than the other still.

I was hoping that I can put the fish in my display tank this weekend as I don't think I can do much more for this eye that what I have done already. Will this eye eventualy return to 100% normal? should I continue the paraguard treatment until it is 100% normal? Should I just put the fish in the display tank and let it finish healing there? I am not sure what to do at this point?

The fish is still small and I am pretty sure as it will grow up the eye will return to normal size has its body will grow, but not sure realley what to do for right now?