Review Proposed Changes
| Profile: | Pop-eye | ||
| Field: | treatment | ||
| Status: | Approved | ||
| Votes: | 10 | ||
| Submitter: | longhairedgit | ||
| Reason: | Corrected contextual mistake (slaps self in head) :D | ||
| Old Text: | Treatments for the various individual causes of eye infection are listed in the appropriate profiles, but the keeper will have to do some investigative work to establish what the cause may actually be. Once water tests have established whether or not the cause is high nitrate exposure, your odds on causes in order of frequency are: 1) Bacteria assosiated with wounds or abrasion. 2) Fungus. 3) Protozoan parasites. 4) Flukes 5) Osmoregulatory issies due to hepatic failure and general failure of the renal system. Rarely supersaturation of gas in the water may be at fault, occassionally co2, but more usually oxygen. This is however, a rare occurrance in the world of usually rather overstocked, underfiltered, and under aerated amateur fishkeeping. Should the causes be of bacterial , fungal or parasite in origin it is worth mentioning that the eye itself has barrier tissue, and is osmotically protected from medications introduced into the water, so any contagion already within the eye will not necessarily get to the parasite or bacteria causing the problem, and this is often why dips and water administered medications are not especially effective in a number of cases. While the fishkeeper generally has little option with tiny fish except to use water administered meds and endure the haphazard results, with larger fish the treatments can usually be injested, or even injected, ensuring that the pathogens are attacked from within and successfully eradicated. This also ensures that diseases which attack the renal system are handled directly, often neatly solving a number of osmoregulatory issues that may have a compound effect on the state of the eye and on the the systemic health of the fish itself. Ultaviolet sterilizers will massively reduce incidences of eye infections of nearly all types. -----------
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