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07-28-2011, 12:04 AM
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When my trigger had popeye (huge bulging eye very cloudy) I treated it with Seachem Paraguard in a quarantine tank and it took very long to really resolve the popeye but the cloudiness was much better after 3 weeks. You cannot treat in a display tank though.
Another option would be to treat antibiotics in the food but this is not very easy in a reef tank to control the dosage and could very well end up killing the fish by overdosing. Garlic? ..it's probably not going to do much for a cloudy eye..but hey..you can try it. 
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07-28-2011, 06:13 PM
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As for the garlic being a natural antibiotic this is true, but you need a lot of it in one dose. When i don't feel well I swallow cloves of garlic chunks, this way there is no smell because i am not chewing it, but i get high dose every time i eat i swallow 2-3 cloves. I had not taken any antibiotics in 12 years, this is great way to fight any infectious disease. Much more natural then flue shots anyway which i never take.
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07-28-2011, 12:39 AM
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Even nobody says my fish will go blind but I know for sure if my Angel doesn't get treatment right now, it will difinitely go blind. It looks "serious" cloudy, I can not recognise that it would be called an eye anymore. I have treated all my fish with food soaked in garlic for a month now, but it doesn't seem to help that cloudy eye at all. I can't catch him/her for quarantine, unless I rip the whole tank out, and I don't want to do that. Maybe I just have to let it go blind, as RuGlu6 said " better to have one eyed fish then a dead one ". I hope someone here has had some success experience with reef safe medication when they treat their sick fish.
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07-28-2011, 01:11 AM
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Unfortunatly it's very hard to treat a single fish in a display tank. It's probably equivilent to spraying antibiotics in aerosol form around the house to get rid of an infection. Extremely unlikely you will ever receive enough medication to have any effect. Just keep providing a healthy tank and food and with any luck things will turn out for the poor guy.
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07-28-2011, 01:47 AM
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I had a yellow tail damsel live for at least 10 years AFTER losing an eye. If he seems otherwise healthy and continues to eat well, I would leave things alone.
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07-28-2011, 02:27 AM
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Untamed, you have senior experience ( with your giant tank  ) on Canreef, if you say so I guess I will not bother to find out how to treat my angel anymore. He is eating well and very active, hope he can live for another 10 years like your little damsel. Anyway, I still feel bad though  ... poor little handsome guy ...
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07-28-2011, 03:04 AM
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I'm with untamed as well...if your fish is eating good and otherwise seems healthy, I'd leave it be. Sorry to hear about your troubles reef93
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07-29-2011, 01:19 AM
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i find all dwarf angels being a challenge i had one the died of ick and another from starvation let it run it course most often the more you try to fix the problem the worse off you become somtimes nature has to run its course as long as ur other fish are fine i wouldnt worry about it
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