Hello everyone,
So I've been dealing with this issue with my Royal Gramma for a few months now. I think it was around November of last year after doing a water change, that I noticed the next day my Royal Gramma has Popeye, I don't know if it was due to him hiding during the water change and maybe injuring his eye in the process.
It wasn't getting better on its own, so I tried E.M. Erythromycin. After completing 2 treatment cycles and seeing that it was not getting better, I tried giving him medicated food with Kannaplex on it. I also used Prazipro in case it was flukes in the eyes or something, and doing more regular water changes.
Something must've worked because his eye did went down in sizze significantlly, and I throught just feeding him vitamin enriched food would do the trick. It was two months of it looking like it was getting better, just a couple of white puffy dots in the eyes, but today I woke up to him looking like the picture attached, worse than ever with still the same isisue as before.
As you can see from the picture, the eye if bloated and he has a few white spots on the eye. These white spots are large puffy, and almost look like it is from the surface of the eye peeling off.
He has been eating well this whole time, he does go into hiding more than he used to.
For reference, my aquarium is 40 gallons, and inside is a true percula clown, a springer's damsel, and this Royal Gramma. The damsel is a bit territorial but has never shown agressive behavior. My parameters are all ok, it is FOWLR with only 3 fish so water quality is never an issue.
I don't know if there is any more information I need to provide, but please advise. I feel like I have not been able to hit the nail on the head in regards to what is wrong with him, maybe using Kannaplex only orally was a mistake and I should have dosed? Maybe Metroplex?
Also, none of the other fish have had any symptons at all during these months that the gramma has had this issue. Please advise, thank you very much.
So I've been dealing with this issue with my Royal Gramma for a few months now. I think it was around November of last year after doing a water change, that I noticed the next day my Royal Gramma has Popeye, I don't know if it was due to him hiding during the water change and maybe injuring his eye in the process.
It wasn't getting better on its own, so I tried E.M. Erythromycin. After completing 2 treatment cycles and seeing that it was not getting better, I tried giving him medicated food with Kannaplex on it. I also used Prazipro in case it was flukes in the eyes or something, and doing more regular water changes.
Something must've worked because his eye did went down in sizze significantlly, and I throught just feeding him vitamin enriched food would do the trick. It was two months of it looking like it was getting better, just a couple of white puffy dots in the eyes, but today I woke up to him looking like the picture attached, worse than ever with still the same isisue as before.
As you can see from the picture, the eye if bloated and he has a few white spots on the eye. These white spots are large puffy, and almost look like it is from the surface of the eye peeling off.
He has been eating well this whole time, he does go into hiding more than he used to.
For reference, my aquarium is 40 gallons, and inside is a true percula clown, a springer's damsel, and this Royal Gramma. The damsel is a bit territorial but has never shown agressive behavior. My parameters are all ok, it is FOWLR with only 3 fish so water quality is never an issue.
I don't know if there is any more information I need to provide, but please advise. I feel like I have not been able to hit the nail on the head in regards to what is wrong with him, maybe using Kannaplex only orally was a mistake and I should have dosed? Maybe Metroplex?
Also, none of the other fish have had any symptons at all during these months that the gramma has had this issue. Please advise, thank you very much.