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one of S&A's fish had that, but much milder, and in only one eye.

Water was dosed with salt the first day, and "pop eye" was narmal again within a week.

Tha googles, they do nut-thing!!!

DT, I don't think I would eat a diseased fish.

I lost a female severum to pop-eye. Half of a beautiful breeding pair, and severums don't pair up easily. I felt the male had injured and stressed her and that developed into the pop-eye. Of course when you have injuries and stress, that can develop in to about anything.

I tried every antibiotic I had to save her. No luck.

If he isn't showing definite improvement in a few more days, I would put him out of his misery. Salt his old tank and his lady friend well for a few days to kill whatever might have infected him, do a big water change, and get her a new boyfriend. You just have the breeders in an aquarium, right DT?

yeah just breeders. She is in Salt now and seems to be fine except for the pop eyes. I am going to give her a week. The problem is I think she will starve to death because she can't see the pellets, even when I drop them in front of her.

Mainly I wanted to show people what a case of this looks like. Can't get any more classic than this.

Wait, it's the female that has pop-eye? I thought it was the male, but it makes better sense to me that it's the female. I blame the male for harassment, then. Give his next girlfriend more hiding places, and maybe give him more than one girlfriend so that his attentions are divided. Or just periodically introduce girlfriends so that you can get fry when you want. Then separate them again.

Actually I am thinking of eating the male and breeding some smaller fish. These two are really too big to mess with. Everytime I handle them they go through a lot of stress.

They do look nice in the tank though.

looked like flex to me.... had the water been warmer than usual before it happened can ya remember?
Dam hard to treat once it goes internal.

Actually the fish was in the salt for about a month, and got better. She is fine now and almost 1 kilo. No more pop-eyes.

Good to hear

Does this happen with perch too? One of our fish has both eyes bugging out. I only noticed it in the last couple of days. Now to try to catch it

Don the birthday suit with snorkel and spear gun in hand

might have trouble determining which is the bug eye Ell!!!

http://www.fish-helpline.co.uk/health/columnaris.html

lol
so anyway keep an eye out for da columnaris/flex critter
I would say it is the next most common fish disease after whitespot.... only it is usually miss-diagnosed

eeeeuuuwwwww

It can look like fungus (white fuzzy) or tb (ulcers) or 'finrot' or 'pop eye' or even 'dropsy'
Is a sneaky bugger.
Any experience using pimafix on these setups?
I mean no one wants fish that taste like cloves or tea tree but they would appear to be safe to use.
On a side note I just found a big 'indian almond' tree in a local park. One of me favourite voo-doo fish meds and one thats actually quite common in subtropical/tropical australia. Saves having to buy the leaves anyway.