eye injury on cardinafish

[brendans_life]

I noticed today that one of my orange stripe caridnalfish has an eye injury and maybe on on its tail-fin, I'm warming up my water for the QT right now, I'm planning on adding erythromycin, I do have some Rid ich on hand. should i add the Rid ich or just leave it out? I can't say for sure if its bacterial or fungal issue with the injuries so i figured both meds should be used.

 

[Dom]

I wouldn't mind seeing this injury. Can you post a picture?

 

[brendans_life]

I wouldn't mind seeing this injury. Can you post a picture?

here is the best i could do, it does not want to show me that side of it.

 

[Dom]

@Jay Hemdal - Any ideas Jay?

 

[Jay Hemdal Verified Community Expert]

here is the best i could do, it does not want to show me that side of it.

That does look like an injury, and you're right, there is that caudal fin damage that kind of goes along with that as well. Anything it could have been fighting with?

External fungal infections are actually really rare in marine fish, so I would skip the rid ich. Erythromycin in a quarantine tank is the typical recommendation for this sort of thing.

Jay

 

[brendans_life]

That does look like an injury, and you're right, there is that caudal fin damage that kind of goes along with that as well. Anything it could have been fighting with?

External fungal infections are actually really rare in marine fish, so I would skip the rid ich. Erythromycin in a quarantine tank is the typical recommendation for this sort of thing.

Jay

I have 4 cardinals so thats who I expect is the culprit. They each have there spot in the tank, I think this was more of it got caught off guard and darted into its rock pile and hit its eye.

I fully expected some aggression as they are full grown, but for the most part they just keep each other in line not full on attack. I just knew an injury like this would be a death sentence if it go worse with them picking on a weaker fish.