Snotty looking substance on tilapia eyes.

[Bryan Acred]

I noticed on several of the tilapia I got last week seemed to be a bit lethargic and will not eat like the rest of the fish. When I looked at them closer, I noticed 4 of the fish have some kind of snotty film on their eyes. Anyone ever run into this before?

[syazwan]

Hey, I got the same issue as yours few weeks ago with one of my tilapia. The eye was covered with what looks like a 'white film'. I separated the fish into a different tank and uses a new water and few days later it died. So I'm not sure how to treat the  tilapia, but willing to listen to some solution for future reference. 

[TCLynx]

Salt treatment is about the only thing really appropriate for fish you might eat in a system using bio-filtration.

[Bryan Acred]

Only one of the fish did not make it. The others seem to be doing fine. I've salted a bit and that seemed to help. Randall, I think your friend is right as the bag contained 3lbs of tilapia. The supplier said that the bag could hold 6lbs.... I think next time, I will ask for more bags....

[syazwan]

Does anybody know if it is safe to consume  the fish that has this problem?

[matthew ferrell]

Should be, we consume many fish that are on their way out and have yet to develop a third eye.

syazwan said:

Does anybody know if it is safe to consume  the fish that has this problem?

[syazwan]

Haha. Thanks. 

matthew ferrell said:

Should be, we consume many fish that are on their way out and have yet to develop a third eye.

syazwan said:

Does anybody know if it is safe to consume  the fish that has this problem?

[Kenneth J Roche']

I thought about this when I had a fish disaster when moving my AP systems from Colorado to Nebraska. Then I looked back on all those fishing days when dead fish would be on a stringer  for a day or in the cooler for a weekend and decided no problemo.  I did process the fishies quickly this time and cooked them right off. I had cooked tilapia every day for 10 days after that event.

[TCLynx]

It's always good when you can eat the evidence of your mistakes.

[Bryan Acred]

So true...so true.

[Bryan Acred]

From what I can tell they did. All fish are very active now and seem to be doing fine.