koy fish with eye injury how can i help it?

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i have a 100 gallon fishtank with 15 koy fish and 2 plecos my largest koy just developed what looks like a swollen black eye and cannot see out of it is there anything i can do to help it?
i have a 100 gallon tank with 15 koi fish and 2 plecos the koi range in size from an inch to 4 inches in size my largest one has just developed what looks like a swollen black eye which it cannot see out of is there anytuhng i can do to help it?
 
You can transfer them to a pond with 5,000 gallons or get a 5,000 gallon tank....that's what you can do to help. Your koi are overcrowded. Contrary to popular belief fish don't just "fit to the size of their tanks" their outside body stops growing but their organs keep growing and that is how fish die too early.

Chances are they're so overcrowded that they've begun ramming each other, hence the problem.

Treat with the proper amount of anti-bacterial medication, sounds like he's got a bacterial infection from injury.

Sorry for the bad news about the size of the tank.
 
Your tank is way overstocked. When they grow full size, your fish (it's spelled Koi, by the way) will need to have a minimum of 1,000 gallons each to thrive.

You should start by removing most, if not all of those fish...
 
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