Puffer with cloudy eyes!

[Brendan]

Any indication what causes this or what it is?
He's still eating and shows no aparent blindness.

 

[Anonymous]

How long have you had it?

Could be caused by abrasions during shipping, or a water quality issue. In either case it usually goeas away as long as the tank is healthy.

Glenn

 

[Brendan]

I have had him two weeks but I had to remove a tank mate due to ick. Maybe seeing me chase a damsel around with a net sort of bothered him.

 

[jmeader]

Puffers are prone to bacterial infections. Sometimes it can lead to popeye.

 

[davelin315]

I'm currently trying something called melafix for an adopted puffer with cloudy eyes (it's a dog face puffer or at least in that family) and it seems to be clearing up after just one day of treatment.

 

[Terry B]

If you removed a tankmate with ich then the entire population has been exposed. Maybe the spots are harder to see on your puffer. Anyway, a secondary bacterial infection commonly follows when parasites attack. Cloudy eyes is frequently an indicator of this.
Terry B

 

[JennM]

Are the eyes swollen or just cloudy? If they are swollen, then I would concur that it's popeye, which is a bacterial infection.

If it's just cloudy, like a cataract on it, I'd suggest a FW dip. It could be trematodes, parasites that attach to eyes and gills. We've been seeing a lot of it lately, from various suppliers, and while mostly tangs and angels get it, any fish can.

5 min FW dip (as I've described in a couple of other posts along this vein this morning) should kill them and they will fall off, looking like clear or white sesame seeds.

I'd try that before medicating. It's a short 5 minutes of stress compared to the stress of medicating, etc.

HTH

Jenn

 

[Anonymous]

Another possibility is that you are not feeding a varied diet with added vitamins. Puffers eat just about everything in the wild. They are like garbage cans. They need the same variety in the home aquarium. The eyes are one of the first areas to suffer from a lack of vitamins.

GL

Dan