Well I've Done It Again

[LauraFrog]

So I was in the LFS (so what's new?) because my mum had a three hour staff meeting and I was NOT going to sit through it. I walked out with two platies.
One of them was pregnant last week and I was considering buying her. She squared off last week and she was in a tank full of tetras. Well she's still pregnant, still squared off, might be holding the fry. I'll leave her alone tonight in isolation and with any luck, fry tomorrow.
The other is a charity case. the LFS was going to put her down but they gave her to me free. She has cancer. It's a small growth (well pretty big for a small fish) on her left side under the skin. It seems warty. No way of telling really because she's otherwise healthy and very active. She's also pregnant and nicely marked so I figured I'd take any fry she dropped and let her go if her life got miserable. But I have also heard stories of people cutting cancers off fish with good results - has anybody done this or heard of it? If it gets bigger I might try it because I have nothing to lose - the fish was free.

 

[omega59]

seems to me you just wanted the fry LOL, anyhow i'm not sure about cutting but one of my cardinals had a white thing on it's tail and it dissappeared on it's own.

 

[5teady_2012]

When i use to keep lots of livebearers, i use to only buy heavily pregnant ones use to be funny watching the fish store owner try to catch 1 specific fish in a tank full of them rofl

 

[omega59]

yes it's funny LOL but very often the female may die if she is very huge!

 

[scooterchick]

So I was in the LFS (so what's new?) because my mum had a three hour staff meeting and I was NOT going to sit through it. I walked out with two platies.
One of them was pregnant last week and I was considering buying her. She squared off last week and she was in a tank full of tetras. Well she's still pregnant, still squared off, might be holding the fry. I'll leave her alone tonight in isolation and with any luck, fry tomorrow.
The other is a charity case. the LFS was going to put her down but they gave her to me free. She has cancer. It's a small growth (well pretty big for a small fish) on her left side under the skin. It seems warty. No way of telling really because she's otherwise healthy and very active. She's also pregnant and nicely marked so I figured I'd take any fry she dropped and let her go if her life got miserable. But I have also heard stories of people cutting cancers off fish with good results - has anybody done this or heard of it? If it gets bigger I might try it because I have nothing to lose - the fish was free.

I could be wrong and my apologies if I am, but are you not already severely struggling for space for fry? The last I ead you were keeping fry in buckets!

And also, the last comment about cutting the cancer off the fish because 'I have nothing to lose - the fish was free' I find rather disturbing. Taking a knife to a living fish should not be done lightly and not as an experiment to see what happens. You should have let the LFS put her down, would have been kinder than to be experimented on. I seriously hope you do NOT touch that fish.

 

[5teady_2012]

So I was in the LFS (so what's new?) because my mum had a three hour staff meeting and I was NOT going to sit through it. I walked out with two platies.
One of them was pregnant last week and I was considering buying her. She squared off last week and she was in a tank full of tetras. Well she's still pregnant, still squared off, might be holding the fry. I'll leave her alone tonight in isolation and with any luck, fry tomorrow.
The other is a charity case. the LFS was going to put her down but they gave her to me free. She has cancer. It's a small growth (well pretty big for a small fish) on her left side under the skin. It seems warty. No way of telling really because she's otherwise healthy and very active. She's also pregnant and nicely marked so I figured I'd take any fry she dropped and let her go if her life got miserable. But I have also heard stories of people cutting cancers off fish with good results - has anybody done this or heard of it? If it gets bigger I might try it because I have nothing to lose - the fish was free.

I could be wrong and my apologies if I am, but are you not already severely struggling for space for fry? The last I ead you were keeping fry in buckets!

And also, the last comment about cutting the cancer off the fish because 'I have nothing to lose - the fish was free' I find rather disturbing. Taking a knife to a living fish should not be done lightly and not as an experiment to see what happens. You should have let the LFS put her down, would have been kinder than to be experimented on. I seriously hope you do NOT touch that fish.

Totally agree

 

[LauraFrog]

I sold a lot of the fry and I have a decent setup now. Still plastic containers but they are filtered/aerated and not overstocked. I'm only keeping very nice looking ones as space is still limited but I found somebody who can take babies. My problem before was that the LFS needed them almost full size before they can take them.
I don't know what would have happened to the pregnant fish if she'd stayed there, she looked pretty uncomfortable and I figured giving her some peace would be the best move.
The fish with the tumour thingy is not suffering and if it gets much bigger I will put her down myself. The LFS's idea of 'putting a fish down' involves throwing it in the bin and letting it suffocate. How is that more humane than taking it home and giving it a chance? It could be a benign skin growth, in which case it won't get any larger and the fish will have a happy life. If it's not, I have heard of people removing growths from fish (ie knock out fish, cut off growth, put in tank with melafix and stress coat) with good results. It's not something I would do lightly and I would seriously consider putting her down. I was just asking if anybody had done it, seen it done or had any idea about whether it might work in this case. That's all. I'm not going to butcher a fish for some sick experiment if I can't find any more information. I said I MIGHT try.

 

[dunchp]

I wouldn't bother LauraFrog. Leave well alone, if you can get fry off her then great, if not then giving her a few weeks / months in a nice set up is about the best you will manage. I admire your intentions, but I wouldn't do it.