New Prosthetic Eye for One-Eyed Copper Rockfish in Vancouver Aquarium Puts an End to the Fish-on-Fish Bullying
It may sound like the plot of a children’s educational cartoon, but one little copper rockfish in the Vancouver Aquarium was dealing with some pretty rough bullying from his fishy peers after he lost one of his eyes -- that is, until veterinary experts at the aquarium decided to give him a new, non-functional prosthetic eye.
Even though the eye is merely aesthetic and can’t provide vision for the fish, it appears that the new eye has already begun serving its purpose.
After veterinarians found and removed cataracts in the rockfish’s eyes two years ago, one of the eyes failed to heal properly and had to be removed. Although the rockfish fully recovered and was capable of living happily in the aquarium with just one eye, it didn’t take long for his fellow fish to notice that something was ...