Happy New Year all!
Update on my chalk bass that has/had popeye... I am happy to report that he is so very close to being back to normal. Yay!
He ended up getting popeye in both eyes, so I don't think it was due to an injury. I contemplated pulling him, but thought it would stress him more, so rode it out. I also saw that he was feeding (except for two days) and when he was out, there were no other spots or issues with him, so was keeping my fingers crossed that we could ride this out and have him recover. And we did!
I have to admit that I really did not have high hopes. His eyes were pretty bad - they looked like you took a glob of glue and stuck his eye in the middle. The gel looking stuff around them remained clear - and that is really the one thing that gave me a little bit of hope through this.
He is a bit skittish now - where before he really interacted with me. I am hoping this goes away since he is out and about a lot more than he has been in the last two weeks.
I did notice one interesting thing when he was "down and out". He would go over to the corner where the fire shrimp hangs out - and I saw that he was letting the fire shrimp clean him. No one else in the tank has let the shrimp do that so far. Maybe that helped? Who knows...
The smaller of the three is supposed to be branching - can't wait for it to grow bigger.
