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For those of you who are disease or parasite minded, please peruse the below images (at your own peril) and give me an account of what you think may be the problem.

I had recently bought home a bag of fish from an aqua-farm. Over the last couple of days, I have noticed a couple (three now, actually) swimming at the surface. I could see their heads were a white'ish colour, so I scooped them out for closer inspection to find - this: Blind, eyeless and hapless. Needless to say the afflicted fish were euthanised. None of the other stock appears to be affected ...yet...

Thoughts??

BTx

Looks like a fungus infection... I believe the remedy is salt bath @ 6ppt

I too thought of that as a possibility - however fungus would normally show fungal growth, not so much necrotizing (flesh eating)...

Bacteria, perhaps? Parasite?

Salt would no doubt be the remedy anyways ...

Sone sort of parasite maybe... Where'd you get them from??

i think that might be "hole in the head" disease or something very similar, basically a bacteria that eats the flesh away!

Not very helpful but ................YUCK

going out on a limb and saying it looks like another barra has tried to eat it, with the amount of force they use when stiking its easy enough to rupture eyes of other fish and take all the scales from around its head.

Find the barra in your tank with the biggest gob and I bet it will be him

Mmmmmmmaybe ... But I've had three with identical symptoms? Maybe the cannibalistic bigger fish is a creature of habit sociopath?

I had one in an inside tank in Kal and it was a bastid for grabbing the archer fish also in the same tank, ruptured eyes and scaleless heads were the order of the day once it was big enough

Damn I was beaten to the "it's been eaten" call....

EB - got any sinking pellets in store, mate?!

We only supply floating feed as a rule BT. Less risk of food sinking and fowling the water, this way people are aware of the the fact that the fish aren't eating all that gets thrown in and it can be scooped off. All in the name of maintaining good fish tank hygiene as well as good water quality.

Not saying that this may be it, but photo looks familiar. Over the last 12 months I have researched a lot on diseases in fish and was sure read somewhere about the eyes. Will continue looking but in the meantime have a read of this, heavy stuff.

http://www.tnfish.org/FishDiseasesParas ... legnia.pdf

OK found this as well, may even be the last one (I)

http://www.fishyfarmacy.com/fish_diseases/eyes.html

Not very nice, would get any that looks sick straight into separate tank.

I just got 100 Barra 50mm fingerlings last week, did water test and PH was about 8.0 and the Ammonia was as green as the one on bottom of API chart. Put all into quarantine tank salted to 3-4ppt. Lost one straight away (may have been dead in the bag) and lost another small one. All others are coming along really well.

I like Barra very exciting to watch and feed.

I think barra are crap to feed compared to trout... And you can't watch em half the time becUse you'll scare em.... Give me trout any day