Help With Eye

[Reefkeeper11]

Hello everyone,

So I recently just added a masked tang to my tank and he has one cloudy eye which I am assuming is an injury. My fox face that has been in the tank for over 2 months not seems to have one white dot on each eye in the very center. I couldn't get a good picture unfortunentally.

Specs:
Nitrate 0
Nitrite 0
Ammonia 0
Phosphate .09
Ph ( i have been fighting this my swing is typically 7.8-8)
Salinity 1.024

Their is a hippo tang, lieutenant tang, purple tang, flame fin tomini, royal gramma, purple orchid dottyback, melanaruous wrasse, 7 blue/green chromis, 2 occelarris clownfish, lawnmower blenny, 2 cleaner shrimp, 15 zebra dartfish goby and 5 pj cardinals. None of the other fish have any spots and all of them are still eating voraciously. I feed twice a day and i give a strip of nori ( seaweed) every other day. Doesn't seem to be any aggression what so ever.

Just trying to figure out if I should freak out or not.

Thanks

 

[John Reefer Vermont]

Sorry to hear about your problems. It is hard to give an opinion or assessment without any photos. Can you take a clear white balanced photo?

 

[Humblefish]

@Reefkeeper11 Is the eye also popped out or just cloudy? One or both eyes??

 

[Reefkeeper11]

Hello, I’ve been trying to get pictures without any luck, atleast pictures that you can see it. So both eyes and I just checked today and he they are closing up. My vlamingi has a collection of spits on his head. I’m pretty pretty sure it’s skin flukes. Any experience with these?

 

[Humblefish]

Hello, I’ve been trying to get pictures without any luck, atleast pictures that you can see it. So both eyes and I just checked today and he they are closing up. My vlamingi has a collection of spits on his head. I’m pretty pretty sure it’s skin flukes. Any experience with these?

Flukes can invade the eyes and cause issues (see photos below). A 5 min FW dip would provide temporary relief and confirm skin flukes, if present: How To - Freshwater Dip

 

[Reefkeeper11]

Thank you very much! I will try a freshwater dip!

Are cleaner wrasses a good combatant also?

 

[Humblefish]

Are cleaner wrasses a good combatant also?

For surface parasites (e.g. velvet, flukes), but not ich which embeds under the fish's outer skin layer.

 

[Reefkeeper11]

okay awesome thanks so much for your help!!!

 

[Reefkeeper11]

So I lost a vlamingi today and here’s a picture I was sent. He did sunday have a congregation of white spots up on his face that’s the only place. I did a freshwater dip on him when I got home but I beleive it was too late because nothing was on him. But from the picture it looks like a fluke on his eye? It’s weird I’ll try and get a picture tomorow but the other fish have just one dot In the center of their eye. They aren’t flashing or acting abnormal and they are still eating like champs.

 

[Humblefish]

So I lost a vlamingi today and here’s a picture I was sent. He did sunday have a congregation of white spots up on his face that’s the only place. I did a freshwater dip on him when I got home but I beleive it was too late because nothing was on him. But from the picture it looks like a fluke on his eye? It’s weird I’ll try and get a picture tomorow but the other fish have just one dot In the center of their eye. They aren’t flashing or acting abnormal and they are still eating like champs.

Can you drop the body (tap is fine) to check for flukes?

 

[Reefkeeper11]

I did and nothing came off, I did take a syringe and blew water through the gills to see if any would come out and not that I saw just mucus/slime.

Maybe this is more bacterial? Saw some of the fish had fins that where frayed. Ill try and get more pics tomorow for you.

 

[Reefkeeper11]

most of the big fish have cloudy eyes, the dartfish and pajama cardinals have one random white spot on a fin but other than that nothing.

 

[Humblefish]

@Reefkeeper11 Look closely at the eyes to see if you can make out flukes:

 

[Reefkeeper11]

yep theirs one worm type outline on each eye

 

[Humblefish]

yep theirs one worm type outline on each eye

You will need to give each fish w/flukes in the eye a 5 minute freshwater dip: How To - Freshwater Dip

Once that is done, you can hit the entire tank with Prazipro: Praziquantel

The reasoning behind doing a FW dip first is you don’t want flukes trembling inside a fish’s eye; which is what Praziquantel causes them to do before dropping off.

 

[Reefkeeper11]

Okay, for prazipro this is in an DT. Just dose normal dosage remove carbon and turn UV off. Then wait 5 days then water change and add carbon then dose again as needed?
With prazipro can it go bad and not be effective?
What if during the treatment the flukes get back on the eye? Do I dip again?

 

[Humblefish]

Okay, for prazipro this is in an DT. Just dose normal dosage remove carbon and turn UV off. Then wait 5 days then water change and add carbon then dose again as needed?
With prazipro can it go bad and not be effective?
What if during the treatment the flukes get back on the eye? Do I dip again?

Prazipro does have an expiration date (check the bottle).

It is somewhat reef safe. You dose once, and then use this treatment calendar to determine when is the best time to add the second dose: BeNeZe - Cawthron 2022

 

[Humblefish]

What if during the treatment the flukes get back on the eye? Do I dip again?

It’s unlikely that any hatchlings would reach the eye. Usually when the eyes gets infected, that indicates a heavy infestation of adult flukes. Usually Neobenedenia spp.

 

[Reefkeeper11]

This was on him and got it under the microscope

 

[Humblefish]

This was on him and got it under the microscope

Where was that taken from and what magnification?