I only used about 1ml of clove oil for about 5g of water so it took like 10 minutes to some what sedate the fish and the sedation wears off pretty fast so if I have to do it again I would try double the dosage.
It was pretty hard to trim off the soft membrane as they are so slippery and I don't want to garb on it too hard. the side with visible gill curl was way pass the soft membrane and on to the hard plate but only slightly so I trimmed those off as well. I felted both side to make sure there's not curled part before I put back into the tank. took only few minutes for it to be completely out of it since the sedation effect was already wearing off.
hopefully I did a good job and they will grow back normal.
here's a video of it, not the greatest thing since it was a one man operation and I was pretty nerves and clumsy at it so it took much longer than I thought, it felt like hrs when I was working with those scissors.
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I think I can safely say that I have a "true" blue diamond now?? LOL
It was pretty hard to trim off the soft membrane as they are so slippery and I don't want to garb on it too hard. the side with visible gill curl was way pass the soft membrane and on to the hard plate but only slightly so I trimmed those off as well. I felted both side to make sure there's not curled part before I put back into the tank. took only few minutes for it to be completely out of it since the sedation effect was already wearing off.
hopefully I did a good job and they will grow back normal.
here's a video of it, not the greatest thing since it was a one man operation and I was pretty nerves and clumsy at it so it took much longer than I thought, it felt like hrs when I was working with those scissors.
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I think I can safely say that I have a "true" blue diamond now?? LOL
