Eye issue with Fox Face

tcoyle · Oct 14, 2017

I added this fully QT’d Fox Face on Sunday. Just noticed a spot on the top of his eye. What could it be?

He has been getting picked on by my clown and Tomini tang a little in the past few days. So I’m thinking it might be a injury and not anything else.

The spot was not on him yesterday but noticed it when the lights came on today. He is still eating really well.

tcoyle · Oct 14, 2017

Looks better now. Might have been some sand. It was hard to tell with just the blues on.

tcoyle · Oct 17, 2017

Could he have ich? Really small white spots (like 3 or 4). Hard to tell if it’s ich or just something else.

Humblefish · Oct 17, 2017

It would be unlikely to see ich on a rabbitfish, as their serum has a strong killing effect to C. irritans. Source: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20117218

More likely sand stuck to his thick mucous coat.

4FordFamily · Oct 17, 2017

Humblefish said:
It would be unlikely to see ich on a rabbitfish, as their serum has a strong killing effect to C. irritans. Source: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20117218

More likely sand stuck to his thick mucous coat.

Agree. Rabbitfish also have cloudier eyes than most fish as the “norm”

tcoyle · Oct 17, 2017

Thanks for that article. Very interesting. He did shed his “cuticle” the night before I noticed this so not sure if that had anything to do with seeing those light spots on him.