I feel so guilty!
I used some Koi sedate to knock him out and I think I took to long to trim his teeth
On the bottle it said to add 10ml of the solution to 9litres of water
I put Bollo into 20litres of water and then measured out 2.5ml of the solution and just driped a couple of drops into the 20litre container, I then pressed go on my timer which was set for 5 mins.
The idea was to add a few drops every 5 mins until it took affect, this way I thought there would be no way of him OD'ing on it. I carried on adding small drips every 5 mins and when he finally slowed down it had been 1 hour and 15 mins and I had treated the water with 15ml (so under half what it said on the bottle). He hadn't rolled over yet but as I picked him up he rolled on his back.
I put him straight into a towel and then started to cut his teeth. It was a lot harder and fiddlier than I thought it would be and I didn't even think I'd taken that long. When I had a look at the video afterwards I saw that it was 8mins before I got him back in the water! when I saw him not moving I held him in front of the power head to push water through his gills, the thing is it just filled him up with water as if he was puffing! I tried to hold him with one hand and then gently pump him with 2 fingers on my other hand over his gills to try and get the water pumping through them from the powerhead. I stopped and I saw the inside of his mouth moving very slowley. I put him in the baby box in the main tank and just stared hoping he would move. He began to twitch and seemed to right himself so that he was sitting with his belly on the floor.
Maybe I should've just left him alone at this point but he wasn't breathing and I was worried that the only reason he'd come round was because I'd got water flowing over his gills so I took him out and did the same again and held him over the powerhead. Unfortunately when I put him back in the baby box he didn't recover
Hey Cristiemo and Jase feel free to say I told you so as you did both warn me that you thought this may not be a good idea, instead I took the advise from the Administrator on The Practicalfishkeeping forum
I think it was a combination of errors on my part as in retrospect even though I thought I was doing the right thing by only adding a few drops every 5 mins I was actually leaving him in the solution for a lot longer than he probably should've been in there (although it was a very slow build up of the solution and he showed no signs of it affecting him untill the last few drops were added). I should've just put a small dose in the container and then added bollo for 5 mins and then taken him out when it didn't work and then added more and then put him back in and so on (not sure if this would of made a difference or would've just been the same since I was adding a few drops extra every 5 mins).
I've left him in the baby box and it's so sad seeing him dead, he was looking so healthy and happy to
Here's a vid I made yesterday of him looking nice and plump and happy that I was going to post in the other thread of Bollo being ill
