Fish Eye problem...

[Labster]

[obet_carlos]

[jackryan]

obet, what does "healthy nori" means? and how much and how often you fed them with nori back then?

[charlesr1958]

Pop eye infections can be caused by either an eye injury from abbrassion or by too many organic and carbon sources within the tank. An eye injury would be somewhat obvious but what a lot of hobbyists fail to realize is that the "good" bacteria within our aquariums can also turn evil. Bacteria at all times are always on the hunt for food sources, which include our pets. In a healthy fish, its immune system can ward off the constant threat from bacteria, but if the bacterial levels get too high, they can overwhelm the fish and invade.
If it is a mild case, water changes and better feeding will usualy self cure the fish, but for bad cases, you would want to remove the fish into a quarantine type tank and treat with an antibacterial medication while getting the aquarium cleaned up at the same time. For more information, please check the bacterial section of .

Chuck

[jackryan]

Thanks Chuck.

Btw, slightly related to this topic, may I ask what kind of feeds you provide to your livestock? How often and techniques you use to ensure maximum consumption of those feeds?

thanks again...

[charlesr1958]

For the "meat" eaters, such as my wrasse and hawkfish, I provide chopped up shrimp that Linda buys at the market (very tiny krill like shrimp) that I rinse at least four times with distilled water to get rid of the massive amounts of phosphates that their liquid holds. The tangs also eat it but I also take a small amount of filamentous algae (hair) from my little turf scrubber and pin it against the glass with my magfloat cleaner. Maybe once a week, I also give them a bit of macro algae from the ocean.
I used to give the fish a bit of sinking fish food pellets, but have stopped doing so because it contains massive amounts of phosphates.

Chuck