Guilty Fishy and Friends/Dinner

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polish;4347305; said:
Sorry to see the ID get beat up like that, good to hear it's doing better though.

Otherwise all your fish look great. The Giraffe still has the nice spotted pattern too, I thought by that size it faded out into large blotches. Very cool to see some of them keep it. :)
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Yeah. As far as I know, there are potentially different subspecies.
 
So, the ID is still alive. He is swimming around in a well aerated pond in a bath of broad spectrum sulfa antibiotics. Currently (almost 3 weeks later to the day), he shows no sign of infection, though about 40% of his body was degloved by the TSN. The skin was slightly attached and then sloughed off about a week and a half ago showing the full extent of the damage. I found this sitting at the bottom of the pond, and though you all would enjoy....:naughty:




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So, this is the best picture I can get of the ID right now. I don't want to stress him out by changing the environment at all, so the pump had to stay on. However, you can generally see him, and the amount of damage he has sustained. He is by no means out of the woods yet, but every day he survives, the better his chances get.
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ctoychik;4392273; said:
Looks serious - hope he gets better
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It is. Even after surviving three weeks, any little infection would just kill him. I've already put in about $30 of high quality, bulk antibiotics. I think he will need at least one more round of antibiotics to get him through, if he makes it. That big TSN is lucky I love her so much!
 
Well, I'm sad to say I don't think the ID is going to make it. He has made it 4 weeks, but today he suddenly took a turn for the worse. He's at the surface with his nose sticking out. I did a water change and added more antibiotics today, but I just don't think its going to be enough. I suspect he has a systemic infection. I hope by tomorrow they've kicked in.
 
superleggera123;4411512; said:
oh no!
sorry :(
ill pray he makes it :)
remember
whatever happens, happens for a reason
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The reason... my TSN likes to eat ID's. :(:irked: I know I've given him every chance possible in every way. I've spent about $50 in high quality antibiotics for him, and monitored him closely over the last month in a large pond by himself. I would be quite sad to see him go. He was a rescue that was on deaths door when I found him, and brought him back to health and growing like a weed. I was proud of him, and how well he was doing.
 
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