My Oranda Goldfish Has had Pop eye for about a month now. I have been treating him and it gets better and goes away and then it comes back. The other day I notices that The eye was missing all together. I have been continuing to treat him because the other eye is still protruding away from his face and is still blood shot. I am new to dealing with fish. But I am and animal lover. Gomez "my fish" is very sweet and I don't want nothing to happen to him. Does anyone have any advice on what I need to do. He is eating well and acting ok in every other aspect, I just don't know what else to do for him.

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[FONT=Courier][COLOR=purple] I'm new to owning fish. I have studied a little on Pop eye disease and I have found out that it can lead to other things like dropsy. Gomez ( my goldfish) doesn't have any signs of dropsy or any other types of diseases but he has lost one of his eyes due to the problem. I have posted once before and have gotten some great feedback, but I need to know what types of medicine that I can give him so that the other eye does not become effected. It has already started showing signs of the same thing, like protruding away from the face, and blood shot under the eye. there is some cotton type fungus around the eye also. I have already begun giving him Maracyn-plus product to help kill the bacteria that causes pop eye but it does not seem to be working. Is this a sign of something worse to come, or is this something permanent that will Kill my fish? Please someone give me some help. I love my fish very much and I don't want nothing to happen to him. My local pet store keeps telling me to flush him and I can't bring myself to do that.

Dawn how horrible your store tells you that. You should report them to the manager.

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Thanks Laurie! I have checked the amonia levels and they are in the safe level. The Nitrite, nitrate, hardness, pH levels are all where they need to be. I have him in a 10 gal. Hosptitaliztion tank at the moment with a Bio-Wheel Filtration system. I do a 25% water change ever two weeks or so and I do a complete water change maybe once a month. There is only one fish in there since he is sick. I have him on an assorted diet because he also suffers from swim bladder. I feed him pellets, blood worms, brine shrimp, peas and very seldom I give him some flakes, but not often because they seem to make the swim baldder worse. He doesn't have any unusual behavior unless his swim bladder acts up in which he then floats at the top of the water on his side. I have to use water from the tap to add water to the tank, so I purchased tap water conditioner that is suppose to remove the chlorine and detoxify any heavy metals. I hope that this information helps and thank you for helping me!

Dawn, I hope everything goes well with your sick fish. Since you have two threads going on two different fish? with the same problem, I'll combine them both together in one, so nobody gets confused with 2 similar threads running....