[canuckreef]

well after about 2 years of everything going more or less ok...
i came down to see my golden head sleeper goby has a cloudy eye... i noticed a few days ago that he was not around..(but eventually he showed up..) but not himself.. he was not swimming as much.. but i thought well he was burrowing in the sand...which is what he did when i first got him..then he was just sifting the sand..but now is burrowed again...

only one eye is cloudy..and i am wondering if maybe he injured it and got an infection...
since he is all over the rocks and sand..

but here is the status now...
he comes out when i feed the tank.. and seems to be active..otherwise he is not seen..
he seems in good shape..and healthy....
and to catch him is almost going to be impossible so i cant treat him in a Q tank...

my water is RO and my parameters are good... more or less

someone told me to do a few water changes in a short period of time ... may help to get any phosphates or nitrates down.. if they
exist...

is there anyway to treat the tank itself... i have a 55 gallon reef
and i was told that if i use any antibiotics they will knock out my
biological system....live rock...

so i am open to hear what you have to say...and help...
i hope i can save this guy...

thanks..

[Skunk Clown]

wow thats a toghy,,,, the only way to treat him effectively is to get him out..........
other than that, the water changes and water quality....... and make sure there isnt anything stressing him out somehow.

[Bughead]

Yeah, I know what you mean--I'd be very hard-pressed to catch my GH sleeper goby out of the 55 gal. Do you have other fish in there and are they OK? Ich can cause cloudy eye, probably due to a secondary infection. But my feeling is that he scraped it and got an infection. Your best bet would still be to hospitilize and treat him seperately. If that's impossible I'd treat with Melafix. I've used it on many occasions, both in the reef tank and FOWLR, and it is reef safe. It usually works well.