BittyBlue BittyBlue
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  • Posted on: 24/11 17:55
Helping my black moor fish #1
The scales surrounding the eyes of our 2 black moor fish have started to peel. It's affecting one eye of each of the 2 fish. We have a 180 gallon tank and none of the other fish are affected. We did a water change and tank clean 2 weeks ago. We did have a moor (named Ty) pass just prior to the water change but he was almost 3 years old and his scales started as black and slowly transitioned to look like a gold fish after his first year in the tank. Ty's coloration change started with scales around his body, not eyes. Could this be the same thing or something different? These 2 moors don't seem to be in any distress. We have 2 bubblers in the tank, some sand and small round glow stones. There is no other decor items in there currently. We do have several other fish: oranda, ryukin, regular gold fish, a comet and 2 dinosaur eel type. This tank is far from overwhelmed in reference to how many fish we have.
After the water change, we did try to introduce 2 store bought gold fish from a trusted local store, and the dinosaur eels did target the new fish. The new fish have since been removed and placed in a secondary tank. We did this in assumption that they were targeted to due to being much smaller than the rest of the population.
How can we help these moors??
Thank you in advance!
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  • Posted on: 25/11 6:44
Re: Helping my black moor fish #2
The skin peeling sounds like some sort of infection, so I would treat it with Esha 2000.
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  • Posted on: 28/11 8:17
Re: Helping my black moor fish #3
Hope the eSHa 2000 treatment (suggested by Fishlady) is helpful.

[You don't mention filtration (which processes the fishes' waste), but presumably you have that too?]