Sounds like a bacterial (I believe) disease called popeye. Check your LFS and tell them the symptoms or look for a book on diseases of fish. That is a fairly common one, especially with Oscars, etc. At 08:55 PM 5/20/98 EDT, you wrote: >my Mesonauta festivum (not a dwarf) has a hugely inflated eye. what kind >of disease is it and what can i do about it? please help. > >tsuh yang chen, new york city > > >------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > ______________________________________________________________________ William M. Groth groth@ruf.rice.edu Senior Staff Auditor Internal Audit Department phone: (713) 527-8101 ext.3759 fax: (713) 285-5927 _____________________________________________________________________