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I have a 4" tank with some Gouramis, Clown Loaches, Pakistani Loaches, Bristlenoses, Red Tailed Rasboras, Flying Foxes, Gold Panchax, Corys and a Rainbow Shark.

All of the inhabitants except for a Gold Gourami are fine. This fish appears to be "going blind" in one eye. The pupil appears to have clouded over in the last week or so. It has some trouble feeding unless I drop it right in front of it's mouth because it seems to "miss" the food, obviously due to losing binocular vision.

Can anyone shed some light on what could cause such a thing and what I could do about it? Unfortunately I don't have a hospital tank, so I would need to do anything insitu.

Water conditions all seem fine and as I say all the other fish appear happy enough. Any help would be appreciated, as I don't have a clue.

A few questions.

How long have you had the Gourami?
How old is the Gourami?

Some time back there was problems with Gouramis in Aust It apprently was the conditions they were breed and kept in. This could all be solved now. But your problem sounds like polution concern. If not is it possible the eye could have been damaged by something sharp in the tank?

Water conditions all seem fine

Does this mean they are or are you just guessing at what the water peramiters are.


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I found a website that briefly mentions the cloudy eye symptoms you mention http://www.fishpalace.org/Disease.html#Septicemia

See if you can get a picture of the injury

*Chelle*
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Gourami is about 18 months old. I got it when it was only about 2 or 3cm long. Now it is around 8 - 10cm.

I haven't actually checked the parameters because everything else is fine and I did a reasonable gravel vac and water change on the weekend.

It doesn't appear to be injured as such, the pupil has just sort of taken on a whitish appearance. And it looks like it is having trouble judging where things are.

Age need not be a factor with the eye problem, irrelevant of age it can probably be treated. Causes can be bacterial, fungal, protozoan or even flukes. Odds-on its probably a fungal infection. Try pimafix and melafix to start, and if that fails arrange a small QT and treat more aggressively . If you can post a pic of the eye, I might be able to tell you what the cause is for definite.

Thanks longhairedgit, I have Melafix at home so I will give that a try first.

Unfortunately, my digital camera is still packed away in one of my boxes so I can't get a photo at present (I moved into my new house about 5 weeks ago and all my fishies survived ) To describe it though, the eye appears ever so slightly more raised than the other, but is in no way bulging and instead of being jet black it is a kind of milky grey colour.

and for those who like the water chemistry stats:

Ph - 7.2
Nitrate - 5ppm
Nitrite - 0ppm
Ammonia - 0ppm
Temp - 26C
Kh - 90ppm

And it is pressurised CO2 injected.

Thanks for the thoughts.

when you moved, how did you re-cycle your tank?

*Chelle*
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Just set it up and let things go. I only moved a few kilometres, so it wasn't too hard to keep the filter full of water, substrate wet etc.

I watched it for a couple of weeks and nothing bad happened and everyone (except the last week or so with this one guy) seems quite happy. I have 3 clown loaches and normally if anything is going to show up water quality problems it would be them.

Sounds like it might have been the stress of the move that kicked things off, maybe even a minor abrasion to the eye during transit could have been the initial site of infection, it happens. There may well be no water quality issues in this case.