Surgeries etc on your fish?

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Adamson

Adamson

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So yesterday I was fortunate enough to pick up some f0 festae. All was fine until this morning I noticed one of them with its mouth wide open and gills working harder than normal. I didn't think anything of it, but 10 hours later the same thing was going on, so I took a closer look. Down it's throat I saw what I believed to be the end of the tail of an oto.
I decided to pull the festae (about 4') out and try and get whatever it was out. So I held the fish and its mouth open in one hand and used a tweezers with the other and pulled out a fully sized and LIVE oto. It had been in the festae's throat stuck for at least 10 hours, if not the whole night before.
I don't know if the festae would have died if I hadn't performed the fish version of the heimlich, but I'm wondering if you have ever pulled out a fish and done any type of surgery?

And P.S., the oto is currently in a bucket with salt and an air stone, I'm hoping it is able to make it.
And do you think my festae will recover 100% from this?


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I had a Flowerhorn awhile back that decided to inhale a Cory cat. I had to use a very small pair of needlenose pliers and tear the Cory out. I was able to get it out in pieces and save the FH. It took a couple of days to heal up but was okay.


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I had the exact same thing happens with an oto and Geophagus brasiliensis several months ago. My Geo's mouth was wide open and there was a little blood. I caught the Geo and pulled the oto out with tweezers. Both are completely fine now.

Good save with your festae. Hopefully there was no serious damage to its gills.
 
WOW, thats intense, can't believe the oto was still alive. Only ''surgery'' i've ever ad to do was pull some large gravel out of my sisters goldfish's throat with forceps. Damn thing loves gravel.
 
I've had this problem once when I put in feeders that were the same size as the fish eating them lol, don't recommend it btw.


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The festae should be fine. Wc fish have much better immune systems than their tank raised cousins. On the flip side, most wc cichlids will go after smaller fish for food more readily than tank bred fish, so the Otto shouldn't really go back into that tank unless you want it to be eaten.


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Crayz that both fish are fine. Ive had to pull fish out of ornaments but never out of another fish o.O


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Had this happen in my African tank not long ago. 7" Nimbochromis Fuscotaeniatus attempted to swallow a 2" Synodontis Petricola catfish. The cat barbs lodged in the gill/rake structure under the tongue and also in the roof of mouth and I had to break the spines with hemostat pliers. Saved the Fusco, the petricola was beyond salvation. Made a thread of this over in the African section.

http://www.monsterfishkeepers.com/forums/showthread.php?527941-N-Fusco-Emergency
 
MTBjake said:
I had a Flowerhorn awhile back that decided to inhale a Cory cat. I had to use a very small pair of needlenose pliers and tear the Cory out. I was able to get it out in pieces and save the FH. It took a couple of days to heal up but was okay.


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That must of been brutal. ripping the cory out piece by piece....
 
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