bdesign
Well-Known Member
Hello,
SORRY for such a long post, but here goes...
Curious if anyone has seen this sort of thing:
It's difficult to see in an image... in the photo it LOOKS like just a reflection / glare from taking the photo, but it's not.
Both eyes have an extremely vibrant blueish glow/haze.
I don't THINK the fish is blind as it is a voracious eater and darts around during feeding to grab food.
It also does not swim cautiously or bump into things...
History:
I've had it for about two weeks+ now
- it was PAPER THIN when it arrived from an online retailer - I assumed it wouldn't live
- placed in a 20G isolation tank for observation (eyes were perfectly normal) as there was a single tiny white spot on the tail fin
- first day it was very timid and hid behind the PVC elbow
- second and third day(ish) it was eating ravenously and was perky
- it became very lethargic and, literally, would lie on the tank bottom and stopped eating
- white spot still present, but no increase in size and no new spots appeared
- after a week or so like this, I started dosing the tank with copper (over 3 days to 2ppm)
- over the next week, the fish looked basically dead. It would not eat anything and would "tumble/float" around the tank with the water flow/movement
- at one point I "knew" it was dead, so I used a long wooden skewer to fish it out, but when the stick touched it, it gave a very slight effort to move
- my wife, convinced it was simply depressed, begged me to put it in the DT to cheer it up, but I was firmly against it due to the white spec on the tail.
- I decided to investigate the white spec, so I reached in the tank and simply scooped it up. I wipe the tail fin with my thumb and the spec came off. I then plopped it back into the tank
- 50% water change
- next day, the fish was still pitiful and on death's door
- still no eating
- next day, 50 % water change and carbon in the HOB
-still no eating or improvement in actions
- NEXT day, wife demanded that it was depressed and to put it in the DT
- FINE! I reached in and scooped it out and put in a baggie and floated/added DT water to acclimate
- removed from the baggie and put in the DT and it swam down and into the rock work hidden away
- Next day... UNBELIEVABLY... it's a completely different fish. SUPER perky and zipping around BUT it's eyes still have this weird coloration.
- it's been a few days and it's now hanging out with the Blue Jaw and living it's best life ever... but those eyes!
VIDEO attached (hopefully)
THANKS for any observations
SORRY for such a long post, but here goes...
Curious if anyone has seen this sort of thing:
It's difficult to see in an image... in the photo it LOOKS like just a reflection / glare from taking the photo, but it's not.
Both eyes have an extremely vibrant blueish glow/haze.
I don't THINK the fish is blind as it is a voracious eater and darts around during feeding to grab food.
It also does not swim cautiously or bump into things...
History:
I've had it for about two weeks+ now
- it was PAPER THIN when it arrived from an online retailer - I assumed it wouldn't live
- placed in a 20G isolation tank for observation (eyes were perfectly normal) as there was a single tiny white spot on the tail fin
- first day it was very timid and hid behind the PVC elbow
- second and third day(ish) it was eating ravenously and was perky
- it became very lethargic and, literally, would lie on the tank bottom and stopped eating
- white spot still present, but no increase in size and no new spots appeared
- after a week or so like this, I started dosing the tank with copper (over 3 days to 2ppm)
- over the next week, the fish looked basically dead. It would not eat anything and would "tumble/float" around the tank with the water flow/movement
- at one point I "knew" it was dead, so I used a long wooden skewer to fish it out, but when the stick touched it, it gave a very slight effort to move
- my wife, convinced it was simply depressed, begged me to put it in the DT to cheer it up, but I was firmly against it due to the white spec on the tail.
- I decided to investigate the white spec, so I reached in the tank and simply scooped it up. I wipe the tail fin with my thumb and the spec came off. I then plopped it back into the tank
- 50% water change
- next day, the fish was still pitiful and on death's door
- still no eating
- next day, 50 % water change and carbon in the HOB
-still no eating or improvement in actions
- NEXT day, wife demanded that it was depressed and to put it in the DT
- FINE! I reached in and scooped it out and put in a baggie and floated/added DT water to acclimate
- removed from the baggie and put in the DT and it swam down and into the rock work hidden away
- Next day... UNBELIEVABLY... it's a completely different fish. SUPER perky and zipping around BUT it's eyes still have this weird coloration.
- it's been a few days and it's now hanging out with the Blue Jaw and living it's best life ever... but those eyes!
VIDEO attached (hopefully)
THANKS for any observations
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