Queen Angel fin disease

sbenus · Nov 7, 2017

Another update on my queen angel. Sadly, he is blind. Not sure what happened but his eyes appear OK physically and he didn’t show any signs of disease. I still have not seen him eating once since I posted about him not eating months ago but he must be eating something because he doesn’t appear to be losing body mass and would have probably died a long time ago.

I live in San Juan, Puerto Rico and after hurricane Maria, the fish were without power for 5 days yet they all made it through safe and sound. I couldn’t believe it. To reduce the amount of waste during the time they were without filtration, I reduced the amount of food. This led to one of the wrasses starting to bite the queen angel's fins and tail. Once power was restored, I increased the feedings and I have not seen him biting the angel again for a while. His fins and tail still appear raggedy however. Will they grow back? Anybody have experience with blind fish and how they survive?

Cheers

Simon

Humblefish · Nov 7, 2017

sbenus said:
Will they grow back? Anybody have experience with blind fish and how they survive?

My dad once kept a beloved 15-20 year old Blueface Angel that went blind (cataracts.) What he did was setup a 75 gal for just that fish with minimal rock work. The fish mostly stayed in one place all day or swam very slowly to avoid bumping into rocks. He hand fed it every night. That Angel lived almost another 2 years this way.

sbenus · Nov 7, 2017

This one appears to have gone blind overnight since one day he was coming to the surface and eating with all the others and the next he was not. Don’t want to take him out in case he is grazing off the rocks which a quarantine tank won’t have. I suppose it’s at night as I don’t see him doing it during the day but he’s definitely eating something or he would have died a long time ago.

Will the fins grow back?