A Golden Pet fish underwent a Brain surgery in Australia on this Tuesday .
The ten year old fish , named George ,had a tumor protruding from its head .The fish was unable to swim and eat properly and starting to suffer.There was two options, either get the tumor operated or put down the fish.The owner ,a woman,who was very much attached to the fish, and wanted to do anything she could for him ,chooses the first one, to operate on .
The gold fish was knocked out with anaesthetic for the operation . The whole operation took just 30 -minutes .Now ,the golden fish is fast recovering well in its home pond.
According to Tristan Rich , the vet who operated the fish ,,'the whole operation was done using three buckets of water ,with different levels of water ,with different levels of anaesthetic in the first two to knocked the fish out. One bucket contain water heavy laced with anasthetic .In which fish swam until he was put to sleep.The second bucket contained enough anaesthetic to keep him asleep which traveled through a tube connected to fish's mouth , flushing over his gills .After the surgery was complete ,the fish was released into the third bucket,filled with oxygenised water and left to recover. The operation was quite fiddly as controlling blood loss is very important for the 80 - gram creature , not more than half a milliliter should be loss.
The operation was performed by Tristan Rich from ' the Lort Smith Animal Hospital'.
And the operation cost only a $200.
GEORGE THE GOLDEN FISH
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The ten year old fish , named George ,had a tumor protruding from its head .The fish was unable to swim and eat properly and starting to suffer.There was two options, either get the tumor operated or put down the fish.The owner ,a woman,who was very much attached to the fish, and wanted to do anything she could for him ,chooses the first one, to operate on .
The gold fish was knocked out with anaesthetic for the operation . The whole operation took just 30 -minutes .Now ,the golden fish is fast recovering well in its home pond.
According to Tristan Rich , the vet who operated the fish ,,'the whole operation was done using three buckets of water ,with different levels of water ,with different levels of anaesthetic in the first two to knocked the fish out. One bucket contain water heavy laced with anasthetic .In which fish swam until he was put to sleep.The second bucket contained enough anaesthetic to keep him asleep which traveled through a tube connected to fish's mouth , flushing over his gills .After the surgery was complete ,the fish was released into the third bucket,filled with oxygenised water and left to recover. The operation was quite fiddly as controlling blood loss is very important for the 80 - gram creature , not more than half a milliliter should be loss.
The operation was performed by Tristan Rich from ' the Lort Smith Animal Hospital'.
And the operation cost only a $200.
GEORGE THE GOLDEN FISH
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