There are a lot of ailments that can affect saltwater fish and for most of these we have tried and trusted treatments. If a fish gets ich we know how to use copper, if a fish has flukes we can give it a freshwater bath and if there’s an infection, antibiotics will usually do the trick but sometimes fish present us with more challenging symptoms.
We were recently faced one such unusual challenge with one of our purple tilefish which experienced a grotesque looking looking bubble behind of its eyes following a small freak out which sent it flying head first into the glass top. This was not the first time that one of our purple tilefish bonked its head on the glass top and developed a little eye swelling but this was the first to developed a gas bubble that made its eye bulge out.
The silver lining about the fish’s affliction is that despite the swelling there was no hemorrhaging and no subsequent infection so we pulled out a hypodermic syringe and decided to get medieval with our procedure. Once we’d secured the purple tilefish gently but firmly against the glass we simply lanced the highly visible bubble of air with the hypodermic syringe and sucked out the misplaced gas, reducing the size o the swollen eye by more than 50% almost immediately.
显然，实际上我们渗透的不是“眼睛”，而是将眼睛固定在适当位置的周围连接皮肤，因此，这是一种非常不引人注目的过程，几乎可以立即从中恢复过来。几分钟后，虫子注视着紫色的瓷砖，没有安全气囊抬起头，扔掉浮力，并在提供一些美味的Mysis Shrimp时很容易地吃掉。
This gas bubble affliction is not unheard of in marine fish and it’s not the first time we’ve had to perform this hands on procedure so we know that the gas bubble may grow and return so we may have to do it again. Despite the bulging eye this purple tilefish is in great shape so we’ll be watching it and hope everything returns to normal under good calm conditions and lots of TLC.
