Fish Minor Surgery

[Abbeys_Mom]

My sparkling gourami had what looked like a hair sticking out of his mouth. I have seen this happen before with guppy fry. I had a fry swallow a cat hair once. So it was time for minor surgery. I tell you, you love your fish when you are willing to do a hair removal on a 2cm fish. I net him without difficulty. Then I lifted him almost all the way out of the water and carefully pulled out the obstruction with a pair of tweezers. It turned out to be plant matter, dried algae or something, it was a hair like piece with little branch like things on the end. Like a fish hook, it went in and couldn't come back out. He's still swimming and now he can eat. Stupid fish eating something it can't swallow, then not being able to spit it out! I hope the little guy makes it. It took me a while to figure out that he had something wrong.

[Lady Hobbs]

About as bad as me laying my angelfish on a wet towel, on the counter in the kitchen, and wiping his wound with Metafix and a Q-tip. You have one minute to do this. :)

[Drumachine09]

About as bad as me laying my angelfish on a wet towel, on the counter in the kitchen, and wiping his wound with Metafix and a Q-tip. You have one minute to do this. :)


WE NEED 10ccs OF MELAFIX!!!!STAT!!!!

I can picture hobbs doing that!

[cocoa_pleco]

About as bad as me laying my angelfish on a wet towel, on the counter in the kitchen, and wiping his wound with Metafix and a Q-tip. You have one minute to do this. :)

I had 2 do that with a betta that had some freak uncurable fin rot with melachrome and a foam plate, and a wet paper towel. That was a pain in the side to do.

[Severus]

It can be amazing how attached we become to our fish. I know i would do the same for mine!