Eyes are popping out12/23/2023 ![]() ![]() One tablespoon per 5 gallons of water for at least three days. Large daily water changes should help, if not Epsom salts have been used with good results to draw the fluid out. It is difficult to specify a specific treatment unless the main cause is definitely known. The affected fish should be immediately taken out to be separately treated. It's caused by excess oxygen in the water, particularly from filters that blow air directly from outside to inside the tank, and from pressurized tap water that did not get mixed. ![]() The other symptoms of this are the appearance of bubbles under the fish's skin. Super saturation occurs whenever the pressure of a gas in the water is higher than the pressure of the same gas in the surrounding atmosphere, whereby the difference in gas pressures causes the gas to get pulled too quickly out of the fish's bloodstream, leaving behind gas bubbles. Pop eye can also be caused by gas bubble disease as a result of oxygen super saturation (excess levels) of the water with the gas, nitrogen. Vitamin A deficiency, tumors and gas embolism are less common reasons. Unsuitable salinity can also be the cause.īacterial infections, injury and water quality are the most common problems. High nitrates/ nitrites, ammonia, metal or plastic poisoning can be the reason too. Bad water quality is a common reason enough to be the cause. If its one eye chances are it's injury, if its both then it is possibly a bacterial infection. Any impact the eye might be subjected to generally as a result of fighting, can cause this. If this disease is not detected soon after it is caught the fish can lose one or both of its eyes and its eye sight. Fungus infections can show up afterwards. The fish may also get less active and show no interest in food. ![]() The bulging eye may have a thin layer of 'skin' around it, this is a tough tissue that covers the eye keeping it in the socket and as the eye bulges it stretches the 'skin' with it. ![]()
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