Popeye Aquarium Fish Disease. You can use the aquarium or Epsom salt to treat the disease and avoid dirty aquarium water to overfeed and maintain a clean tank to prevent the disease. But Popeye is when pressure behind the eye causes the eye to protrude.
Some people start throwing stuff at it kill their fish inadvertently and get super discouraged and often quit the hobby. Anchor worms are young parasitic crustaceans that attach to fish and burrow under their scales. Popeye disease is medically known as exophthalmia.
You can use the aquarium or Epsom salt to treat the disease and avoid dirty aquarium water to overfeed and maintain a clean tank to prevent the disease.
The eye might seem cloudy or discolored if the cornea was ruptured or it may appear to be bloodstained. Popeye is not a specific disease but a symptom that may occur from one of several different causes. Popeye disease is medically known as exophthalmia. Popeye is an infection in which usually one eye or sometimes both both eyes of the fish are swollen and bulges out abnormally from the socket.
