Lamarcks Angel sick :(

jaganshi066 · Apr 11, 2021

I bought a Lamarcks Angel a few days ago and I don’t know how I didn’t notice it’s eye is cloudy/a little swollen. I realized that when I got home and it’s been 3 days, he’s eating well, but I don’t know if I should medicate him or leave him alone. He’s currently in my quarantine, and I’ll try to get pictures tomorrow, any help/advice is greatly appreciated.

Wen · Apr 11, 2021

jaganshi066 said:
I bought a Lamarcks Angel a few days ago and I don’t know how I didn’t notice it’s eye is cloudy/a little swollen. I realized that when I got home and it’s been 3 days, he’s eating well, but I don’t know if I should medicate him or leave him alone. He’s currently in my quarantine, and I’ll try to get pictures tomorrow, any help/advice is greatly appreciated.

Photos will help and post in fish disease/ illness forum.

jaganshi066 · Apr 11, 2021

Wen said:
Photos will help and post in fish disease/ illness forum.

I will post it again but this time to the disease forum thank you. I’ll try to get pictures later on this morning

Zionas · Apr 12, 2021

Sorry to hear that.

jaganshi066 · Apr 12, 2021

Zionas said:
Sorry to hear that.

Hey just when I get on haha, it’s day 5 and he still had it but he’s eating well. I wasn’t able to get a picture yesterday but I’ll try today

Zionas · Apr 12, 2021

Haha sure. I think for now keep up the good diet and water quality and see if he makes a recovery.

How’s your Multicolor and Flameback?

jaganshi066 · Apr 12, 2021

Zionas said:
Haha sure. I think for now keep up the good diet and water quality and see if he makes a recovery.

How’s your Multicolor and Flameback?

They are good, I can’t put any new fish in though or my flameback will kill it

Zionas · Apr 12, 2021

I see. What size was your Flameback and Multicolor and this Lamarck’s when you got em?

Thaxxx · Apr 12, 2021

You may not of missed seeing the bad eye in the store before you got it. It may have gotten injured being caught in the fish store.

jaganshi066 · Apr 12, 2021

Zionas said:
I see. What size was your Flameback and Multicolor and this Lamarck’s when you got em?

Oh the lamarcks is still in my quarantine, it’s really small probably an inch or an inch and a half, same with my others when I got them

Zionas · Apr 12, 2021

I plan to get my Flamebacks at around that size

Gonna try to make a trio

They have better colors than many of the medium sized dwarf angels.

jaganshi066 · Apr 12, 2021

Zionas said:
I plan to get my Flamebacks at around that size Gonna try to make a trio

They have better colors than many of the medium sized dwarf angels.

They do! I think only the potters and multicolor look better. I know a lot of people like flame angels but I like the flameback more

Zionas · Apr 12, 2021

Yeah I like the Flamebacks a lot hehe. Multicolors too. And Cherubs.

If I had to get a medium sized angel I’d probably get a pair of Joculators or Interruptus but those are way beyond my price range ahhh.

jaganshi066 · Apr 12, 2021

Zionas said:
Yeah I like the Flamebacks a lot hehe. Multicolors too. And Cherubs.

If I had to get a medium sized angel I’d probably get a pair of Joculators or Interruptus but those are way beyond my price range ahhh.

I’ll get it for you

Zionas · Apr 12, 2021

woo thanks! If only I lived close to you ahaha

jaganshi066 · Apr 12, 2021

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here are two pictures, it’s his right eye

Jay Hemdal · Apr 12, 2021

It looks mildly infected, but doesn't have severe exophthalmia (popeye) so that's good. I bet it just scraped its eye during capture, as mentioned.

Since it is already in a QT, you could consider dosing it with erythromycin (Maracyn 1) as that has worked for eye issues fairly often. On the other hand, as long as the left eye is fine, and the fish is eating well, you may just want to wait and see. What are you going to do for proactive fluke and protozoan control?

Jay

jaganshi066 · Apr 12, 2021

Jay Hemdal said:
It looks mildly infected, but doesn't have severe exophthalmia (popeye) so that's good. I bet it just scraped its eye during capture, as mentioned.

Since it is already in a QT, you could consider dosing it with erythromycin (Maracyn 1) as that has worked for eye issues fairly often. On the other hand, as long as the left eye is fine, and the fish is eating well, you may just want to wait and see. What are you going to do for proactive fluke and protozoan control?

Jay

Thank you! I usually dose with prazipro after my copper treatment is done. Is there anything else I should use? Also can I use maracyn 1 simultaneously with copper? Would it hurt/affect my other fish in quarantine??

Jay Hemdal · Apr 12, 2021

Maracyn 1 may inhibit beneficial bacteria in some tanks, so monitor ammonia. I use prazipro after copper myself- 3 treatments, 7 days apart.
I don’t recall dosing Maracyn with copper myself, but I don’t know of any issues chemically.
Jay

jaganshi066 · Apr 12, 2021

Jay Hemdal said:
Maracyn 1 may inhibit beneficial bacteria in some tanks, so monitor ammonia. I use prazipro after copper myself- 3 treatments, 7 days apart.
I don’t recall dosing Maracyn with copper myself, but I don’t know of any issues chemically.
Jay

Thank you! I only dosed half the copper so I’ll stop that treatment and get the maracyn 1 tomorrow. It shouldn’t hurt the healthy fish right?