Best way to treat popeye

[Pedro]

Okay, so i don't know WTF happened. One day there was a small white patch in my female clowns eye. I thought nothing of it. The next day the eye looked like it was popping out of the socket. Today it looks even worse. I was trying to see if it starts to recede. At this point though, i am pretty sure i would need to quarantine and treat separately.

I believe it's popeye. But i thought it might be caused by a cut or something since it was one eye. What have you guys used to treat your fish? This is the first time ever i have experienced this. I feel so bad for her, and i need to do something fast. Please recommend your medicine of choice.

Thanks.

 

[Tonyscoots84]

honestly my fish had popeye actually 2 to be exact.. my blue hippo and my royal gramma... i never treated them just added garlic to there food and it healed up within a week... not saying the garlic is the reason it went away but def. helped there immune system out to fight watever was wrong... just letting ya no what i did and it worked nuttin special... good luck...

 

[Pedro]

Thanks T.

I will begin feeding frozen with garlic tomorrow. I don't think diet is the cause because i feed a good variety. Hope the garlic helps.

How bad did the eye get? I feel like her eye is about to pop out.

 

[Tonyscoots84]

my 2 looked the same way.. it usually happens when they scrape there eye on sumtin, such as a rock and it swells up... also sometimes from a disease... but i didnt say cause of there diet i jus said i added garlic to my fishes food for 1 week and it went away :biggrin: good luck pedro maybe others here will have another way of treating it but it worked for me....

 

[House of Laughter]

Give him a can of spinach and Olive Oil neked in a shack and he's all set :jk:

I do garlic and leave them alone - mine had what appeared to be an eye ripped out of it's socket, but he recovered and back to normal.

HTH

House

 

[Pedro]

Jim, How long after you noticed the eye did you begin to treat? And how long did it take after you started feeding garlic for the eye to recede?

What is the most common cause of this thing?

 

[Lenny718]

BUMP. One of my clowns has what seems to be popeye and I would like to know what causes it. I will also try treating with garlic, any other ideas? Thanks in advance.

 

[crox99]

Bulged eye can be caused by several stresses: injury to the eye and bacterial infections are the primary culprits. Oftentimes, netting a fish can cause popeye from direct injury with the net, or because of bacteria on the net itself. When at all possible, avoid using nets, and always keep fish in water. If you are going to use a net, however, sterilize it before use and place some slime coat on it just before you capture the fish.

 

[Lenny718]

I recently switched from a 90g to a 150g tank so maybe the stress from the move (or the net) caused it? Thank you for the advice Crox.

 

[DevIouS]

- Popeye -

 

[Lenny718]

Great link Devious, very informative. Thanks

 

[DevIouS]

No problem...

My anel had a real bad case of it...to the point it looked like it was gonna fall out
All I did was WC's....& it healed on it's on within a few weeks, with no bad effect.

 

[basiab]

Some people use Epsom Salt (get it in a drug store) a level teaspoon per ten gallons of actual water volume. The main thing is good water and nutrition.