Advise please, cory lost an eye!

AquaticAustin

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hey guys I just got back from a month vacation where my roomate fed my fish every other day. No water changes, he didnt even add water so it dropped 4 or 5". Tank is 110 gallons and is a tropical community, it seems like I have no losses but my smallest cory. The only peppered cory, has lost one of his eyes! I thought it was dead but it was breathing then I fed the tank heavily and it was swimming normally and ate! Its a clean socket but idk what to do. Has anyone else ever had anything like this happen? Idk how long the eye has been gone and you can see like into his head its very odd.
 
I would make sure to keep up on your tank hygiene with regular water changes. The big thing to do is to prevent infection while the wound heals. Eventually the socket will fill in with scar tissue.

If its appropriate for all of the species in your tank you could add some salt as a prophylactic.

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If your can get him out without further damage I would put him in hosp/QT for at least a month. This avoids adding any treatment to the main tank where it's not needed for everyone, lets more medication be focussed directly on the patient, gives you better observation opportunities, and most importantly gets him out from the company of the other tank inhabitants. Who, let's face it, are the most likely suspects in the crime, er I mean injury.

kinda rare for eyes, in any species, to just spontaneously PLOP fall out. Either he poked it into something (possible) or he got nibbled on. A month in the stir will allow for a full recovery, and also give you time to find 4-6 more peppered cories to fill out your population. That or rehome him to someone one cory short. He really needs to be with a group of his own species.
 
Fish loosing an eye is not toooo unusual. It could have been "pecked" out by another fish, or damaged on a rock, ect. He can live with one eye and survive very well, just a little "handicapped". He is mostly nocturnal, and search for food with it's whiskers/barbs anyway.
 
XanAvaloni said:
If your can get him out without further damage I would put him in hosp/QT for at least a month. This avoids adding any treatment to the main tank where it's not needed for everyone, lets more medication be focussed directly on the patient, gives you better observation opportunities, and most importantly gets him out from the company of the other tank inhabitants. Who, let's face it, are the most likely suspects in the crime, er I mean injury.

kinda rare for eyes, in any species, to just spontaneously PLOP fall out. Either he poked it into something (possible) or he got nibbled on. A month in the stir will allow for a full recovery, and also give you time to find 4-6 more peppered cories to fill out your population. That or rehome him to someone one cory short. He really needs to be with a group of his own species.
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No im not rehoming him and no im not getting more. I have 16 cories in the tank and he does just fine with them. (that is 10 julii cories, 5 bronze cories, and 1 peppered). He stays with the bronze cories all the time despite the size difference.

As for fish biting him, im sure it was the cause. The only fish in the tank with a mouth small enough to get his eye would be some rosy barbs I have in the tank. unless plecos suck eyes out :-P

I did JUST add rocks into the tank before I left but nothing with small points on it so I doubt it was the case, almost certainly other fish poor little guy!
 
He will be fine, I actually used to "rescue" any fish from local fish stores that were missing an eye and even both a few times. I had a tank full of misfits and they never seemed to realize they were handicapped.

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My angel had this happen, and I discovered it was its "mate" who was the culprit. It might have gotten in the way of the rosys during feeding time :help:
 
Get him an eye patch and a little plastic parrot and he can be a pirate next Halloween. And the one after that, and the one after that............
 
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