Droop eyes cured on 2 Aros

[Voltron2000]

Droop eyes cured on two of my aros:

Aro: Silver and PT. Silva RTG (Silver right eye and RTG Left eye droop 45 deg downwards)
Size: Silver 12 inches and RTG 14 inches
Tank Size: 6 x 2 x 2 ft (3 sides Black Oyama with bare bottom)
Technics used: 2x Orange pingpong balls (mark with red dots on the vertical and horizontal axis)
White Blinker Lights (used for bicycles) => place on top of tanks at different positions every night
Comm Tank
Diet: Feeders(GF,Koi,Toman), BF, SW, MP, Pellets, Live/Frozen Centipedes, Sliced Beef, Sliced Chicken and recently KangKong...
Diet Frequency: Daily (never starved them before)
Tank Mates: 1x Motoro, 2x Catfish (RTC and another type, dunno name), 3x High fin Plecos, 2x ST
Filter Media Change: Monthly (every month end) *Personal finding, never to change filter media and WC concurrently
Water Change: 20% Monthly (every mid month) *Personal finding, never to change filter media and WC concurrently
Reason for purchase: Why i bought a droop eyed aro? Personally took it as a challenge to cure them and not because the aro has perfect or fantastic posture or colouration.
Cured In: Silver under 1 month, RTG under 2 months
Remarks: All the techniques were used concurrently. Could be one or two or all of those together that could have contributed to the curing of the droop eyes.Droop eyes has/have been associated with various things ie. fatty food, too much food, reflective bottom of tank (seeing it's own reflection), looking at bottom dwelling tank mates and so on.

Question: I am feeding all those mentioned above which some are fatty food though NOT at all frequent. I feed them daily (as much as they can consume). So is this considered too much food? I have a bare bottom tank. Can this be considered reflective bottom? Comm tank and bottom dwelling tankmates. Did this help in the curing process? I doubt, because i think most of us have seen many comm tanks, where aros still have droop eyes and aros with bottom dwelling tankmates with still good eye conditions.

So, to all bros/sis, what are your thoughts base on the above and what could have contributed to the curing of the droop eyes exactly?

As far as i can see and prove, all the reasons thus far are not valid except for the fatty food, where fatty deposits remain in the eye socket causing droop eye.. If you have a good regime with the diet, droop eye can be avoided and cured and an eye operation to remove the fatty deposits is not required.

Finally on the curing process, did the pingpong balls and the blinker lights help in the curing process, though many claimed putting pingpong balls defits the purpose of curing droop eyes. So, all in all did the blinker light did the trick with balance diet?

All your thoughts wrt this topic is appreciated.

Cheers.

[arofanaticks]

congrats to u bro

[aromatix]

Bro Voltron, thanks for the great sharing
Good argument and process of elimination.
So, if we test your theory out with the Blinker Lights only that shoud bring us closer to proving it

[LostBoI]

nice findings...

i feel its more on the bicycle blinker and diet...

i tried putting my bike blinker on top of my aro tank before the aro will keep looking up and wondering wats that..lucky my aro is not jumpy ..

jus my 2 cents

[Voltron2000]

Thanks Bros...

Originally Posted by LostBoI

nice findings...

i feel its more on the bicycle blinker and diet...

i tried putting my bike blinker on top of my aro tank before the aro will keep looking up and wondering wats that..lucky my aro is not jumpy ..

jus my 2 cents

Thank you on confirming and sharing

[VSKH]

Great Sharing Bro! For that you definitely deserve a point from me!

1) Is the blinking lights still turned on every night?
2) Is the ping pong balls still in the tank?
3) How long (days/weeks) have they been cured?
4) Do you happen to have before and after pictures of the droop eye for skeptics like myself? If not nvm.......I will still give you the benefit of the doubt!

Cheers!

[Aroboy II]

Thanks for sharing!

[Voltron2000]

Originally Posted by VSKH

Great Sharing Bro! For that you definitely deserve a point from me!

1) Is the blinking lights still turned on every night? No
2) Is the ping pong balls still in the tank? Yes
3) How long (days/weeks) have they been cured? Silver 2 mths/ RTG 1 mth
4) Do you happen to have before and after pictures of the droop eye for skeptics like myself? If not nvm.......I will still give you the benefit of the doubt! Pics in my folder of the RTG only on the droop eye. Decided to take pics only when the silver was cured. After cure pics not taken yet. Will do it ASAP
Cheers!

Thank you for upzz, bro.

[VSKH]

Originally Posted by Voltron2000

Thank you for upzz, bro.

Thanks Bro for the answers to my questions!

I believe that DE can be cured but the difficult part I think is keeping it cured!

I've actually read of bros using your blinking light method b4. Fiber glass tank and putting aros in pond are other methods also!

I'm also very interested in DE coz I've had 3 ex-RTG with DE and becoz I don't think the cure would be permanent........I didn't try curing them. I sold 1 away. The other 2 died of Chloramine poisoning during WC!

Congrats that your aros are cured!

Originally Posted by Voltron2000

Thank you for upzz, bro.

Thanks for sharing. I had a situation similar on one side on a juvenile red. The introduction of ping pong balls (6 of them, 2 white with lines, 2 orange and 2 with black dots) plus feeding with superworm. It has helped reducing and improving DE, but like your pic, is still has some degree of dropping.
I think by introducing GF as feeder it will contradict your treatment. So I will say all you have done is correct except by feeding GF, and toman.