Stars and stripes puffer, cloudy eyes

[dynee12]

I'm in the middle of a hypo now after using stop parasite for 5 days. My puffer is doing much better. I leave the salitity at the low level for 3 weeks right? It's at 1.05 I noticed a while back his eyes were cloudy. How do I fix that? I guess it's a bacteria problem right. I thought he was going to die. He didn't eat for like 4 days. Now he's eating and swimming around alot more than he has in the past week or so, which makes me happy. The ich is about all gone. I purchased some erythromycin gel tek. It says 5 drops per fish. He's the only fish in my 75 g tank. Can someone please tell me how to use this product? If I can fix the bacteria problem I think He will survive.

 

[beth]

What are you using to measure the salinity or specific gravity? The specific gravity should be at 1.009. What you have is way too low.
The treatment is for 3 weeks after you no longer see white spots (using a magnifying glass to look the fish over).
The cloudy eye is a symptom of ich. that should clear up. If the eyes get puffy, the its an infection.

 

[dynee12]

Im using a hydrometer, I know thats not the best tool to use but thats all I have. I'll raise the sality up. He is doing much better thanks to this forum and help from you. Please if I'm doing anything wrong please let me know

 

[beth]

Ok, if you are using the plastic swing arm hydrometer, you need to stop using that immediately. This will not work for hypo and it may be dangerous. If you can't get a refractometer, then go with the glass floating hydrometer.

 

[dynee12]

Ok, Thank you so much. I will go to the lfs and pick one up. Are the plastic swing arm hydrometer's junk I take it?

 

[beth]

Yes. Inaccurate enough to be not good for even routine measurement of specific gravity.