Performing Anesthesia On Your Fish!

[xmikebrock]

so, the other day i was looking up ways to trim my GSPs beak... i found this one page where a guy did it

and ive been scared about attempting/experimenting with this since a meeting i had with doc johnson... and now that i feel i need to perform this on m puff, i looked more into it

watchu need to do is:

take 2 buckets
pour 4.5 cups of tank water in both
in one of the 2 buckets ad 4 drops of clove oil

**ONLY 4 DROPS**

i use clove oil at work to put koi fish and other pond fish down that are sick and cannot be cured, so it can be lethal (hense iwhy i was afraid to attempt this)

take your fish out of the tank and put him in the clove oil bucket

and in a couple minutes the fish will appear asleep, you will be able to poke it and it will roll over as if it were a log...

*** this is when i would trim the beak ***


after you do whatever you need to do and want the fish to wake back up, simply put it in the other bucket of only tank water

and in a few minutes it should wake back up

if it didnt, there was probably a measurement issue

4.5 cups of water ----> 4 drops of clove oil




i just tested this out today at work with a comet and it worked wonderfully

if you try this, be very cautious and ake sure you measure right

=)

[J-P]

No Finquel available? It is supposed to be MUCH safer than clove oil.

[Flutter]

Yep, I'd just use MS-222. Doesn't make sense to use clove oil and MS-222 is easily available in the States. Not so much in Canada but it's not impossible.

[jtbadco]

I suggest trying to find Finquel or something similar....they are geared towards fish and the medication and dosing is measureable.

The problem with clove oil is that how much you use depends on the size of the fish and how much water you are putting it into for treatment.

I have used clove oil myself because it is next to impossible to get proper sedatives here (Winnipeg, Canada)

I suggest 3 buckets plus a plastic container for scooping up the puffer

One bucket for sedation...second for work....third for complete rinse (some clove oil can be transferred to 2'nd container)...then transfer back to tank.

I used less water in my sedation bucket and only 1 drop of clove oil....then waited for approximately 90 seconds until fish stopped moving....transferred immediately to 2'nd bucket, held puffer submerged in the water (in a net for handling) and trimmed teeth,...then transferred to 3'rd bucket for final rinse.

Best to use cuticle nippers for trimming IMO.

HTH
Blaine

[xmikebrock]

haha i thought i was sooooo cool for figuring this out -____-

but i figured that there were other easier safer ways to do it
ill definitely have to check those products out

thanks guys

[Pufferpunk]

Yeah, we all were using CO at 1st, until we found it stops the fish from breathing. Many of our puffers that had been tranqued over & over for trimming were starting to come up with brain damage, so we only suggest using this in an emergency or where MS-222 isn't available.

[Pufferpunk]

Yeah, we all were using CO at 1st, until we found it stops the fish from breathing. Many of our puffers that had been tranqued over & over for trimming were starting to come up with brain damage, so we only suggest using this in an emergency or where MS-222 isn't available.

[xmikebrock]

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ok.. hahah
ill check that stuff out
is it usually available?

or is it something im gonna have to order?

[J-P]

You'll have to order it.

I got mine from here: http://www.argent-labs.com/argentwebsite/ms-222.htm

Still have yet to use any of it. Just hope the wife doesn't mistaken it for coffee sugar

[Pufferpunk]

DFS has it as Finquel.

[xmikebrock]

whats DFS?

[xmikebrock]

alright..
gonna have to order some haha