SO i woke up to a dead Porcupine puffer and a Possibly Blind Dwarf lion. The back of the puffer looked mangled and his eyes were completely white and blind, like the old man on JAMES AND THE GIANT PEACH, but both eyes and no magic worms. My larger Volitans is fine, and so is "lunch" the chromis i cannot capture, nor can the lion.
The Lion has white film on his eyes, one side looks like he scraped it, maybe go bit at. he is seemingly blind, so I have him quarantined with egg crate separating him from the powerhead, I also squirted some garlic in there to add to his immune system if that even works. Im using a 55 gallon tank.
They have lived together at a small size in the 75g for a while, and when they reached 4 inches I upgraded to a 150.
I also have a small case of ich, which i am in the process of planning treatment as well.
Im trying to rule out possibilities and come up with the best cure.
I also fell asleep mid paragraph, it is now the next day. THe dwarf seems to be less blind, and some pupil is showing through the cloudiness. He also noticed my hand which was awesome.
I have been looking up the symptoms to lionfish stings on fish, I am guessing they usually kill them, but there is not much or very well hid information on the actual stage a fish will go through upon injection. I do know what it did to my hand, so the human interaction part I learned first hand.
The other theory I have is this: I use Garlic xtreme for the chance that garlic is actually good. WELL, I stopped using it for a couple days, but still put a couple drops in my tank. Coincidentally, this was pre tragedy. Could the fish have a depleted immune system from the lack of garlic??? I feel that is the least likely, as my fish were fairly healthy. I have 3 aptasia that I just fed hot vinegar and they shriveled up, they were small, so i dont think they were the cause, but could have been. I dont know. Params are all good so I know it wasnt a spike of anything unless it was an overnight Grim reaper spike that went away without a sign, I have ruled out my cats as well since i got the new tank with a canopy, I did just lose a Calico koi to my calico cat yesterday, so I know it was them that snaked my damsels from my sump last year. I dont know, im bummed and so is the woman. Any suggestions?
The Lion has white film on his eyes, one side looks like he scraped it, maybe go bit at. he is seemingly blind, so I have him quarantined with egg crate separating him from the powerhead, I also squirted some garlic in there to add to his immune system if that even works. Im using a 55 gallon tank.
They have lived together at a small size in the 75g for a while, and when they reached 4 inches I upgraded to a 150.
I also have a small case of ich, which i am in the process of planning treatment as well.
Im trying to rule out possibilities and come up with the best cure.
I also fell asleep mid paragraph, it is now the next day. THe dwarf seems to be less blind, and some pupil is showing through the cloudiness. He also noticed my hand which was awesome.
I have been looking up the symptoms to lionfish stings on fish, I am guessing they usually kill them, but there is not much or very well hid information on the actual stage a fish will go through upon injection. I do know what it did to my hand, so the human interaction part I learned first hand.
The other theory I have is this: I use Garlic xtreme for the chance that garlic is actually good. WELL, I stopped using it for a couple days, but still put a couple drops in my tank. Coincidentally, this was pre tragedy. Could the fish have a depleted immune system from the lack of garlic??? I feel that is the least likely, as my fish were fairly healthy. I have 3 aptasia that I just fed hot vinegar and they shriveled up, they were small, so i dont think they were the cause, but could have been. I dont know. Params are all good so I know it wasnt a spike of anything unless it was an overnight Grim reaper spike that went away without a sign, I have ruled out my cats as well since i got the new tank with a canopy, I did just lose a Calico koi to my calico cat yesterday, so I know it was them that snaked my damsels from my sump last year. I dont know, im bummed and so is the woman. Any suggestions?
