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Old June 5th, 2008  
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blind angel!!

I think my angel fish has gone totally blind! He cant find the food, and keeps swimming into the glass. I have been treating the recommended dosage of tetracyclin for five days, doing the recommended water changes. In addition i have been treating with vitachem, and garlic guard. The water parameters are normal, and the fish is quarantined in my hospital tank. I was treating it because the fins looked ragged, and there were white clouds over the fishes eyes. Now i dont think it can see at all. He also swims sort of gimpy. Does anyone know what is wrong? Can anyone recommend a treatment or is it too late?

He has been like this for two weeks. I did one week of garlic guard and vitachem treatment, and then moved on to meds.
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Old June 5th, 2008  
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Does my Angel fish have TB? He has many of the symptoms... If this is the case..should i humanely euthanize with clove oil? Obviously Euthanization will be a last resort..
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Old June 5th, 2008  
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Hi Riley
Sorry to hear about your Angel... poor thing. I did some research for you. Sounds like Cataracts which are fungal growths on the eyes. Any treatment with fungicide should help.
You can try ordering "Eye Fungex" by Aquatronics, made especially for this problem.
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Old June 5th, 2008  
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Thats so SAD!!!

Is there anyway you could hand feed him?
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Old June 5th, 2008  
Master Of Fish Poo!
 
Hmm.. all I can think of to do is to put tall plants around the walls of the tank. Hopefully that will teach him when to stop. And to feed, maybe soak blood worms or other food that size in garlic and use aquarium tongs to keep the food in front of him to find.
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Old June 6th, 2008  
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he has taken a turn for the worst tonight, and i dont think he is going to make it. He is sideways now, so i will just let him be and go peacefully.
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Old June 6th, 2008  
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Also, he was in my community tank for a while when i was just trying garlic guard and vitachem. Is this fungus easily spreadable? None of my other fish are showing signs of anything. I am thinking of adding a parasite clear however because my gourami is still kind of bloated and sitting on the bottom..eating like a pig. I figure i should add the parasite clear to the tank because by now any fish could have parasites right?
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Old June 6th, 2008  
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I'm sorry to hear that your angel is doing worse.

You could look for "Rid-Fungus" and treat the tank with it to be safe. Since it's not harsh on the fish, it won't harm them and would be ok.

I'm not sure on the Parasite Clear. Your Gourami is eating a lot? Usually parasites bring on a loss of appetite.
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Old June 6th, 2008  
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when i woke up this morning, my angel fish had passed away.
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