Please Help Help Help!!!!

hey guys my coral beauty was just doing fine yesterday and now today its not coming out of the rock caves... so i take a closer look and its left eye is HUGE bulging out and there is a tan kinda discoloration of the skin to the right of the eye!!!!!!!!!!!!!

i dont want him to loose the eye
he has been eating GREAT and is very active but all of the sudden wam this happens, all the other fish (2clowns, 1 yeltang) are doing great.....

WHAT IS HAPPENING!!!!!????

and what can i do??

im most likely going to set up a QT tommorw if he needs any dosing etc etc....

PLEASE HELP ASAP!!!!

thanks alot guys

 

Also i feed with rods food, good stuff has garlic in it and everything,,,

my water is well oxygenated and always around 78-79 deg salinity around 1.024

he is breathing heavier and has no signs of fin rot or anything else

 

popeye its probably a bacterial infection in the eye. they best thing you can do is make sure it has great water quality.

 

Popeye..usually caused by an infected abrasion. Erythromycin in a QT tank for 3 days (or follow directions) should do the trick.

 

+1 on the bacterial infection. If you feed garlic every meal, some people say it loses it's effect.

 

cool thanks so much for the help guys, im setting up a qt tomorow and going to the lfs to get some Erythromycin or somthing of the like (see what they have) and hopefully all goes well!

 

yea and i see the point, its like alota stuff, its like tylenol take it everyday and soon there will be no effect so youll have to take 2

the amount of garlic in it is very small so i dont think it has a huge effect but im going to look at some other foods and see whats available.

 

I bought a coral beauty a couple months ago and it had popeye. I put in a qt tank but couldnt get it to eat, eventually died. The big problem was it was unable to see the food.

 

+1 on popeye, try to keep your temp down, thats a usual cause. keep around 78 and try to make sure he's eating. he'll be fine under less stressful situations.

 

yeah i have seen this condition.. there is a treatment available for it.. and like already said it is a bacterial infection and quarantine and treatment should help.. keep ya fingers crossed..