moo.;4412068; said:
You didnt sedate it??
Being a veterinary nurse, watching that video made me cringe the whole way through. No anaesthetic, non sterile environment, non sterile scissors.. ugh.
Keep a very close eye on that little fella. Make sure you watch for signs of infection and give him a stress free environment until that fully heals.
I'm sorry, I wasn't performing open heart surgery, I was performing non-invasive surgery on a simple gill flap.
Non sterile environment with non sterile scissors? Well you are right about the environment, I used a towel that has never been washed with any detergents or fragrances, only a very diluted bleach mixture, and it was wetted with filtered tank water after going through my UV sterilizer. And the scissors were first cleaned thouroghly with a bleach mixture, soaked in rubbing alcohol, then rinsed.
Being that you are a veterinary NURSE, I apologize if I offend you here, you must have a world of experience working on ectothermic non mammalian species. I called about 15 veterinary offices and the actual vets, not nurses, had no idea what I was talking about or what to do. I had to call a specialist out of the bay area that actually does this type of work on multiple thousand dollar exotics. This guy doesn't work on puppies and kitties, he's a fish doc so to speak.
So I'm sorry if I sound a little belligerent in this reply, but it erks me when people flame when really, they have no idea the situation.
This surgery would be about as invasive as a cut on the finger getting souchers without Anestesia, uncomfortable? Probably, life threatening stress, nope.
And by the way, being that they don't really make fish safe local anesthetic, putting the fish under would carry much more of a risk to the fishes respiration than is necessary.
Fish get hooks jammed in their mouths, pulled against their will as they fight, pulled out of he water, and thrown back in less than gentely, and they live to be caught time after time after time in catch and release fishing.
Btw, he is doing great as of right now. Any secondary fungal or bacterial infections are not likely.
