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| Treating Wounds with Michelle and David |
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| WoundMed |
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| Preparation |
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| Operating equipment |
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| Injecting oil of cloves |
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| Going under |
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| Inspecting the fish |
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| Testing for sedation |
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| Lay fish on a wet towel |
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| Cover the fish |
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| Dry the wound |
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| Applying WoundMed |
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| Drying the Woundmed |
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| The finished job |
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| Into recovery tank |
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| Support fish upright over airstone |
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| Recovered ! |
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| Photo 1 |
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| Photo 2 |
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| Main pond |
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The last pictures are of a male Showa which jumped and injured itself
on the side of the pond. The full length side wound became infected and grew into a really hideous sore, photo 1 taken 6/12/04.
We scraped away the infected flesh back to clean raw flesh and treated this Showa 4 times with topical wound ointment. The
wound heeled and new skin covered the area in just 2 months -photo 2 taken 5/2/05. This was the worst fish we treated and
you can see the stress caused the colours of the fish to fade severely.
I saw this fish recently at a friend's pond. After
3 years the injury is barely detectable and its entire colour has returned.
Nice fish.
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