Puffdaddy's Eye

[charliet]

Hello,
Our pufferfish "Puffdaddy" has injured his left eye. It has become cloudy and if you look real close you can see a small spot which looks like an injury.
I am familiar with eye injuries in other animals but not sure what if anything we can do for him. He seems happy and is eating.
:happyfish
CharlieT

 

[ozadars]

this puffer looks like a brackish water puffer and this can be the reason of its cloudly eyes

 

[charliet]

Thanks for your feedback.
He is a brackesh water Puffer but has been in our tank for 8 months, doing fine. Only one eye is cloudy and it appears as though it was stuck. He does investigate/bother snail and crabs occaisionally, so maybe he got too close.

 

[leopard_babe]

My puffer got stuck in the powerhead the first day that I brought him home. his eye looked caved in and cloudy. After about a week of so you culdn't even tell that he had a little accident. he is not blind and his eye is fine. Maybe is will get better with time.
Leopard

 

[liznkenny]

I have a coral beauty with an eye injury. It is slowly getting better. Maybe eye injuries take longer to heal than other injuries (like injuries to fins). I put my fish in the medical tank and have given him antibiotics, just to prevent infection.
One website said to use 1 teaspoon of epson salts per 5 gallons in a medical tank for eye injuries. It did NOT help my fish, it may have taken away some discomfort the fish had, but saw no evidence of healing.

 

[ozadars]

Originally posted by CharlieT
Thanks for your feedback.
He is a brackesh water Puffer but has been in our tank for 8 months, doing fine. Only one eye is cloudy and it appears as though it was stuck. He does investigate/bother snail and crabs occaisionally, so maybe he got too close.
if he has been doing fine for 8 months then he doesnt have any problems w/ the SG.
But another thing, every fish can injure itsself both in nature and in aquariums. Some of them recover, some dont. But a its harder for a brackish water fish to recover in saltwater. You can try fresh water dip. Also try disease forum i am sure beth and terry will help you much more then i can
Take Care

 

[genx]

My Puffer also had an eye injury which caused it to swell and become cloudy. I was really worried about it, but he healed up just fine. No medication used or anything, just time. (three weeks to be exact)

 

[badkharma]

I also have a blue tang that got an eye injury, but it was gone in a week. He didn't act any different at all while it was swollen and cloudy.

 

[charliet]

Good News!! Our Puffer's eye is much better. It has only been a couple of days but it is almost impossible to see where it had been injured and it is no longer cloudy.
Thanks for all your feedback.

 

[g13]

Let me get this straight the puffer is a brackish water puffer and he is in a salt water tank. Is that really possible? Can the puffer actually survive in that salinity? If so, Charlie T what is your salinity level? I would love to have one of those puffers in my tank. Thanks

 

[charliet]

G13,
Our water is 1.024 right now. I am about to add some fresh water to top off which will bring it down a bit. It is always more than 1.021.
Our LFS almost always has these guys in stock. Most puffers are able to live well in a wide variety of salinaty levels. I was in Florida a couple of weeks ago and saw some (6-8 at 4-6 inches each) good size leopard puffers in an inlet which is brackish (actally called a lake).
There is an online FS that does carry these guys. You can email me at charliet@ctalpacas.com and I'll send you the site.
I see you are from Chicago. My Brother works at the Shedd Aq. diving in the main tank and giving lectures while under water.

 

[chrisareston]

I tool the spong off of my powehead because it was all nasty and I didnt even think about it. My Porky was caught in there this morning, I had to help him out after I turned it off. his left side of his face was caught in it. He has a huge bulge now on his side, and his eye is a little caved in. I havent seen him all day as I have been at work. I hope he will be ok! Is there anything I need to make sure I do?
Thanks

 

[alison]

Hey charlie, I had that kind in my tank for a year and it did fine, I kept it at .023 for a year, but it too got the exact same thing. I noticed after a few days that there was a thing hangin off of the eye, and asked and it was a parasite, so if you notice a parasite that developes, take a cotton swap and gently get it off as I did, and he just healed up and was great, but you may just have clowdy eye. I would go into the disease forumn and ask beth to just make sure. Mine got nasty when it got big, and starting biting all the fish, I almost cried when I had to trade him into the lfs. He ate right outa my hand.

That was 4 months ago, and I miss the guy still. Well, hope your little guy gets better as mine did. I reasurched that type, when I had mine, and they frequently spend years in salt, and then go back to brackish, then freshwater, then salt, and so on, so don't worry about that. Good luck, ali