Please help, how to treat a sick fish in reef tank ?

[daniella3d]

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.

[RuGlu6]

Originally Posted by daniella3d

Garlic? ..it's probably not going to do much for a cloudy eye..but hey..you can try it.

What i meant to communicate is that fish will have better chance of survival with better feeding, garlic will help him to eat more and support the immune system. It will not cure the eye obviously, it might will help to stay alive.

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.