I have a dwarf frog with bloat. Tonight, my fiance and I aspirated her for the first time - and we'll most likely have to do it again next week. To do this, we've had to order needles online (since here in PA you can't get them from a pharmacy without a prescription). So, between all the supplies to save her, we've spent well over $50 - and that's not including any meds. Everyone thinks we're nuts for doing so - "It's just a frog! Flush him!" his mom said. And I almost passed out after I got the needle in her (I seem to have developed a recent aversion to needles).
So how far have you gone to save a fish or aquatic frog?
2006-12-18 13:41:43 · 6 answers · asked by birdistasty 5 in Pets ➔ Fish
I have stood in nasty-dirty, ice-cold, knee-deep pond water while doing a spring clean, with my arm in the bottom drain up to my elbow, hanging on to the tail of a 12" koi that had somehow gotten himself wedged down in the drain there underneath the pond. My husband back-flushed the filter to push water out of the drain, while I gently pulled on the tail, until we finally got him out - the whole process probably took about an hour and my fingers were numb from the cold and from being afraid to let go for even a second for fear of losing him down the drain or having him turned into fishburger in the pump. Once he popped free, I slathered the scratches on his sides with neosporin, and raced in to write to koivet.com to see if there was anything else I could do. We added bactrycin (sp?) to the water and fed medicated food, and he was kind of dopey for a day or two, but he made it and grew another 4" or so that summer - that was three years ago and he is still swimming around in the pond. I don't know that I could do injections, though - probably anything up until that. I am just too squeamish to "stick" something, even if it's *just* a fish.
2006-12-20 10:21:20 · answer #1 · answered by Poopy 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
wow, ok i have never been caught in a situation where i desperately needed to save a fish that second! Except i did save a fish at the pet store two nights ago. A large comet goldfish jumped out of his aquarium and was flopping all over. I picked him up and put him back.
Oh and i sacrificed my homework one night when i was doing a science experiment with my bettas. One of my females took the death jump and i scooped her onto my paper and dunked it into the tank.
It sucked to do it over again. lol
2006-12-18 16:04:59 · answer #2 · answered by Heather 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
My husband and I found our BlackMoor Goldfish floating upside down, and he had turned WHITE! Why? because as a bottomfeeder, he had picked up a rock that was too big and it got stuck in his mouth. My husband took a pair of tweezers and removed the rock and we ran him under tap H2O for a few minutes. This fish did this several times and each time, no matter if we were in another room or asleep, wwe did what we could.
As a footnote whe bought this fish along with another Blackmoor, for our first aquarium. The smaller Blackmoor was responsible for the "suicidal" ones rescue, as he would spit small rocks at the glass aqaurium to get our attention.
Pets can become substitute children for some of us, take care of your pets, it proves your humanity.
2006-12-18 14:01:38 · answer #3 · answered by caron162 1 · 6⤊ 0⤋
For the most part, I just keep some medicines around and do research. I know when they're sick by their behavior and appearance.
Whenever I mention the illness to a family member or a friend, they think me quite mad. They can not fathom how I know the difference between 'normal' fish and sick fish.
Just the other day one of my friends said to a co-worker of ours "She spends more on her fish than I do on my dog." When I said that I had no one else to spend my money on, and so why not spend it on them, she quickly came back with an answer. With an affronted look (purely in jest) she said " Well, Jenny, you could always spend it on me!"
2006-12-18 18:46:30 · answer #4 · answered by Jennifer B 3 · 2⤊ 0⤋
wow..u must luv that frog.....must of been very special.....i didnt do anything like that before but my friends cuz saw his fish upside down in the tank and he took it out and tried to do CPR!!!! I was all laughing but he was only 7 or 8 ish.......but i thought that it was nasty
2006-12-18 16:19:44 · answer #5 · answered by penguins.are.koo 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
ive never gone far to save a fish. i have cried over one.
2006-12-18 14:38:36 · answer #6 · answered by tootfarkle 1 · 0⤊ 2⤋