Eye infection, please help!!!
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Okay, just finished adding erythromycin at 10pm 03/23/19, going to wait an hour or so and add the General Cure as well.
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Is it possible it could be a fungal eye infection?
KrisReef
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No on fungus.
It looks like a mild mechanical injury to me, like a net or another fish attacked your angel. Whatever, the E. mycin is a great treatment and will give your fish the best chance of a full recovery. I think its going to be fine before the end of the week.
It looks like a mild mechanical injury to me, like a net or another fish attacked your angel. Whatever, the E. mycin is a great treatment and will give your fish the best chance of a full recovery. I think its going to be fine before the end of the week.
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Okay, thank you! 
Just took a picture of her today..
Just took a picture of her today.. 
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Here is another picture that I took of her tonight.
Here is another picture that I took of her tonight.
Compared to earlier pics I think I see some improvement
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If the infection does not clear up 100% by the 5th dose (5th day) of Erythromycin, what would be my next course of action?
I did a 65% water change last night, then dosed some more Epsom salt to make up for the water change then dosed yesterday's antibiotics after the water change.. eye looks a bit better but it's still there.. she is much more active now though after the water change... just want to get my next course of action ready/get whatever medications now before I have to go that way..
KrisReef
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If the E mycin is working, but not fully improved I would plan to go 10 days (+5) with it to finish the microbes off.
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Just took a picture of her..
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She is still blind in that eye.. do you guys think she will regain eye-sight? How/what can I do to help heal the eye faster/better and increase the chances of her seeing from that eye?
Not much else you can do besides keep steady with the antibiotics... there is a chance she could lose the eye entirely, but I think by the pictures she has a pretty good chance at full recovery.
I would most definitely do 10 days of the maracyn, regardless of how much better she looks after 5 days...
And if you’re not doing so already, soak her food in a vitamin supplement like vita-chem or selcon.
I would most definitely do 10 days of the maracyn, regardless of how much better she looks after 5 days...
And if you’re not doing so already, soak her food in a vitamin supplement like vita-chem or selcon.
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Okay, sounds like a plan.. when should I be worried if the eye stops looking better? How long does it usually take to clear up? Would it be a good idea to add another kind of antibiotic on top of the erythromycin? Like Maracyn Two (minocycline)? Or?
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what the heck?? Please help! Could it still be puss making it's way out? Looks like some clear jelly like **** is coming out of her eye?! It was coming out then next moment it's gone.. then there is a hole left behind where the stuff was coming out of?? @HotRocks @Ford4life @Humblefish
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Then this is a few minutes later once the stuff came out..
HotRocks
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Sorry if it's been mentioned have you checked for flukes?
I agree with @ngoodermuth's above post all you can do is what you are doing. If flukes are present you may need to address that as well.
I agree with @ngoodermuth's above post all you can do is what you are doing. If flukes are present you may need to address that as well.
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I did a 5 minute freshwater dip the day she got the eye infection and there is nothing on her.. no flukes at all... nothing fell off of her.. then after the freshwater dip I gave her a 90 minute Acriflavine MS bath a dosage of 1mL per Gallon. Then after starting Erythromycin (Maracyn) I also did a single dose of General Cure like you told me to just to be safe then will do another dose of General Cure on day 7...
I also ordered 250 grams of NFG (Nitrofuracin Green) from National Fish Pharmaceuticals and should have it next week on Monday just in case...
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Looks like there is more stuff coming out if the eye again? Just took these pictures...
