My Silver Dollar has some sort of unknown growth on the tip of his fin and it wont seem to get better after many treatments of melafix,salt,quick cure, and a multi disease medicine. So I was thinking if I just cut off that part of his fin it would just grow back and the growth would be removed. What do you guys think?
Should I perform surgery on my sick Silver Dollar?
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ok this might sound stupid but I had a gold fish with a growth one and I put neosporin the anti bacterial stuff for people on him next day it was practically gone and he was happy and healthy after that all you could see was a small scar. try this on your silver dollar just hold him down and apply some with a cu-tip. I don't garantee anything but it worked for me maybe it can save your fish good luck. keep me posted
i defenatly wouldnt add any human anti bacteria (not saying it wont work but its a big risk you could do more harm than good)
i wouldnt take the fish straight out and trim the fin its a lot of stress
i personly would sedate the fish with 4 drops of clover oil for 1g of water do it in a jug so you would need 2 1g containers one with 4 drops of clover oil in the other with plain tank water add the fish to the clover tank wait intill the fish is almost mosion less check with a net then pull the fish allmost out of the water keeping its gills wet and trim the fin then add the fish to the 1g tank with tank water move the fish back and forth to get water through its gills and it should regain conconess give it a 30 min brack to recover then you can add it back to the display aquarium
(warning do not keep the fish in the clover oil tank for more than 3-5 mins any more can kill the fish so get the job done quick this is only an idea its commonly done for puffer fish)
heres a vid link of it being done to a puffer but you would trim its fin not its teeth http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qJzJtH2e2bg
i wouldnt take the fish straight out and trim the fin its a lot of stress
i personly would sedate the fish with 4 drops of clover oil for 1g of water do it in a jug so you would need 2 1g containers one with 4 drops of clover oil in the other with plain tank water add the fish to the clover tank wait intill the fish is almost mosion less check with a net then pull the fish allmost out of the water keeping its gills wet and trim the fin then add the fish to the 1g tank with tank water move the fish back and forth to get water through its gills and it should regain conconess give it a 30 min brack to recover then you can add it back to the display aquarium
(warning do not keep the fish in the clover oil tank for more than 3-5 mins any more can kill the fish so get the job done quick this is only an idea its commonly done for puffer fish)
heres a vid link of it being done to a puffer but you would trim its fin not its teeth http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qJzJtH2e2bg
monsterberry;4408055; said:
I completely agree with you I took the risk because he was a feeder goldfish. how ever I was suggesting it as a last resort. if hes tried everything and nothing works and thes fish is gonna die might as well give it a try
or you might be better leaving it and seeing if it gets any worse if it does i would deffenatly recomend surgery ( like my parrot cichlid had a strange growth near the inside of here gills it was like white loose strands of skin hanging of the inside of here gills after 2 months of regular water changes she has partialy fighted it off not completly but shes getting there some times youve got to let them naturaly fight illnesses well in my case i had to let here fight it off as i have got no idea what it is )
I would just leave it alone.
you will do much more harm to the fish by netting it, holding it down and cutting the fin.
if it hasn't got worse its probably just a scar and will not cause any harm to your fish.
you will do much more harm to the fish by netting it, holding it down and cutting the fin.
if it hasn't got worse its probably just a scar and will not cause any harm to your fish.
i agree with you as well as a last resort my worry is that a fish is body is wet and is coverd in a slym coat wen you put the human anti bacteria on it it could run down the fishes fin and onto the body and if it gets to the fishes body 99% fish gone
i would do it on a feeder but wen it comes to a dollar
i have done surgery on a oranda wen the fishes sadated its realy quite easy youve just got to have the right knifes and be as cerfall and as quick as you can but thats removing a tooma its much easier to cut a fin than to cut into a tooma you dont need sertan knifes just some nail clipers depending on the size of the growth but as long as it doesnt get any worse i would leave it but one signe of it getting any worse i would take immediat action & i would not net the fish and cut the fin why it is conciouse but youve got to be very cerfull with clover oil
i would do it on a feeder but wen it comes to a dollar
i have done surgery on a oranda wen the fishes sadated its realy quite easy youve just got to have the right knifes and be as cerfall and as quick as you can but thats removing a tooma its much easier to cut a fin than to cut into a tooma you dont need sertan knifes just some nail clipers depending on the size of the growth but as long as it doesnt get any worse i would leave it but one signe of it getting any worse i would take immediat action & i would not net the fish and cut the fin why it is conciouse but youve got to be very cerfull with clover oil