Large tumor on fish

[FishGuest5123]

I posted this in tropical discussion because it gets more views. However, it’s actually a large goldfish with a large tumor on its side. Vet called it an iceberg tumor. Anyone ever tried to remove a tumor from fish before. What is the risk? I will eventually have to euthanize him as he has one starting on the tip of his nose too. Would it be worth trying to remove them? Enclosed is pic of side one.

 

[Barry Tetra]

Do you have a vet near your place?

 

[Colin_T]

The problem with tumours outside the body is they have veins feeding them from inside the body. If you cut the tumour off, it bleeds a lot and eventually it grows back.

Since the fish is doomed to die, you can try tieing a piece of thin thread around the base of the tumour where it attaches to the body. This can stop or reduce the blood supply to it and the tumour dies and falls off. However, it will probably grow back later on.

 

[JuiceBox52]

The problem with tumours outside the body is they have veins feeding them from inside the body. If you cut the tumour off, it bleeds a lot and eventually it grows back.

Since the fish is doomed to die, you can try tieing a piece of thin thread around the base of the tumour where it attaches to the body. This can stop or reduce the blood supply to it and the tumour dies and falls off. However, it will probably grow back later on.

That is an interesting method, I have never heard of it, but can see how it would work

 

[Retired Viking]

The problem with tumours outside the body is they have veins feeding them from inside the body. If you cut the tumour off, it bleeds a lot and eventually it grows back.

Since the fish is doomed to die, you can try tieing a piece of thin thread around the base of the tumour where it attaches to the body. This can stop or reduce the blood supply to it and the tumour dies and falls off. However, it will probably grow back later on.

Make sense to me, @Deanasue Sorry about your fish, if you try @Colin_T method I hope it works.

 

[FishGuest5123]

Do you have a vet near your place?

Not an aquatic vet locally. I have a friend who is one in Alabama but too stressful to ship the fish there.

 

[FishGuest5123]

The problem with tumours outside the body is they have veins feeding them from inside the body. If you cut the tumour off, it bleeds a lot and eventually it grows back.

Since the fish is doomed to die, you can try tieing a piece of thin thread around the base of the tumour where it attaches to the body. This can stop or reduce the blood supply to it and the tumour dies and falls off. However, it will probably grow back later on.

Thanks! We’ve done that to castrate pigs before. Worth a try.

 

[Colin_T]

That is an interesting method, I have never heard of it, but can see how it would work

It's an old school method of removing growths from animals and was used before surgery became common place. You basically tie some string around the base of the growth to restrict the blood supply, and the growth ends up dying and falling off.

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Thanks! We’ve done that to castrate pigs before. Worth a try.

That's really painful for the animal being neutered. We were shown and had to use docking rings on lambs and it wasn't nice. Poor animals

 

[Barry Tetra]

It's an old school method of removing growths from animals and was used before surgery became common place. You basically tie some string around the base of the growth to restrict the blood supply, and the growth ends up dying and falling off.

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That's really painful for the animal being neutered. We were shown and had to use docking rings on lambs and it wasn't nice. Poor animals

Its illegal in my country too.

 

[Barry Tetra]

That's really painful for the animal being neutered. We were shown and had to use docking rings on lambs and it wasn't nice. Poor animals

Why they have to remove lamb tail? Years ago my neighbor who is a mom let 4 years old kid alone in the house while she working, the child put rubber band on the finger when mother came home the finger is already ‘dead’ so they have to remove them.

 

[Colin_T]

They remove the lamb's tails to help keep their bottom cleaner. During summer blowflies land on the sheep's bottom and lay eggs on the poop that is stuck to the underside of the tail. The maggots then eat the tail and the sheep gets an infection and dies. By removing most of the tail, there is less area for poop to collect and flies are less of a problem.

Most farmers don't like doing it and know it's unpleasant and painful for the sheep, but it has to be done due to the flies. If the sheep have long tails and lots of poop, they suffer a horrible death later on.

 

[FishGuest5123]

Worse than castrating pigs is dehorning a cow/steer. Made me sick. By the way, I always had my pigs and cattle castrated by a vet but many of our FFA students were very poor so we had to band their pigs. None ever seemed to have problems though or be in discomfort. They had to castrate boars in order to show at the fair.

 

[Colin_T]

We had to dehorn cattle at high school. Put them in a crush and grab the wire saw and go flat out. Unfortunately most people can't get thru the entire horn without stopping and when the horn falls off there's a huge spray of blood and everyone gets covered in it.

We did calves too but we used a horn soldering iron type of gadget. It cauterised the horn and stopped it growing. It didn't seem to cause any pain to the calves because we just held them and cooked the horn bud. After it was done the calves wandered off to mum for a drink and that was it.

I don't miss the pigs because they stank, but the calves, lambs and kids (baby goats) were really cute little buggers.

 

[FishGuest5123]

Our vet had a tool that looked like big pliers. It would dig into the scalp and dug the horns out. The cows or steers would be covered in blood. Of course, they anesthetized them first. Gory looking though.

 

[JuiceBox52]

Our vet had a tool that looked like big pliers. It would dig into the scalp and dug the horns out. The cows or steers would be covered in blood. Of course, they anesthetized them first. Gory looking though.

We just saw and file them... you have to do it more than once but it's not painful. Same stuff as fingernails