Can fish have operations?

Answer 1

Yes they can. They can be anaesthetised and operated on as any other animal. This site has some great footage about it:
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/sciencenow/3214/04.html

Answer 2

C'mon you lot, Charlie A is asking a very serious issue here, Forget all these stupid answers Charlie and stick with mine... Simply put, yes. Fish dont need anasthetic, they cant feel anything....Well theres nothing to feel in water is there. So to keep them alive I like to put there head in a glass of water and make sure the tap is running. My last experime....Operation was on a Mackerel that had fin rot.. we had to unfortuantly remove its side fins and its tail. Someone thought it might have a dorsal fin rot, so off that came too.. Unfortuantly, although the operation was a complete success and whilst recovering in the bottom of the tank, propped up with coulored gravel... Willy died soon after... So after the autopsy to see why he died, which i hasten to add was not really clear, we covered him in flour and milk and tossed him into the old deep fry and ate him along with some chips we got from the fish shop.... So as you can tell Charlie boy, yes you can operate on fish, but whether they survive is a different question....

Answer 3

Yes they can. I have performed a few myself on salt water fishes. I am a marine biologist and former curator for the Rainforest Cafe Restaurant chain. Believe it or not, Alka Seltzer is the answer. A certain amount of tabs of Alka Selter in a bucket of the fish's aquarium water. Place the fish in the bucket, then they swim in circles like crazy for about 15 seconds. Then they go totally limp. Take them out of the water and perform your "surgery" (I had to remove sections of skin and gill for disease diagnosis) and place them in fresh aquarium water and they will wake up again. There is also Finquel (MS-222), but the Alka Seltzer is cheaper and easier to come by. But, too much of either of these can be fatal. Should only be done by those who know what they are doing.

Answer 4

Yes, I've recently performed a neurological surgery on a sardine I have on my private lake, I observed its swimming being erratic and soon learnt that it was due to a malady in the primal cortex of the hypothalamus, the surgery took six hours but it was successful, there was even a positive side effect from this operation, the sardine now can speak German and play all of Edvard Grieg's piano sonatas, among other curious activities.

Answer 5

*of corse u cn* - u put anthestic in the water and take it out to operate - ther is no point operating on small fish because the job would be 2 fiddly but larger one - thn yes!

Answer 6

Actually, yes. There is a vet here in town that has actually done operations on larger acquarium fish, that the large fish you see in "commercial" acquariums would definately be worked on if need be. I am not sure HOW one does operations on a fish, but I know it is done.

Answer 7

actually yes, in russia they operate to get the eggs (baluga caviar) out so the fish can produce again the next year.

Answer 8

yeah Ive heard of a goldfish getting an operation once to remove a tumor and it costs a ton of money, but that was a long time ago

Answer 9

yes - i saw one on tv - i think it was a coy fish and this guy really loved it - had all these tests done on it to make sure she wasn't gonna die of a tumor - i forget the outcome but the fish's name was sumthin like seven star rose - - sumthin like that.

Answer 10

I operated on a salmon last night using my knife and fork! It was delicious! mmmmmmm