Adolf has been stable all day. Spent most of his time resting and cruising slowly around the tank, mostly with his tail as post haemorrhage, both his pectoral fins are inflamed, hypo-motile and showed the presence of necrosed (dead) tissue. The fin bases are now cleared off the haematoma and appear healthy and capable of generating new tissue. I debrided the dead tissue using suction-aspiration, dressed the suture wounds using a combination of methylene blue and malachite green and carried out a 80% water change. Here are some pics and vids.
Siphoning out the wastes before the suction debridement
Note the necrosed (dead) pale yellow pectoral fin tissue
Sheathed atraumatic suction tip
Right pectoral fin post-debridemant. a few haemarrhagic spots can be appreciated at the transparent base. This part is still viable. Note the cleared out and healthy looking fin-base and pectoral peduncle in contrast to the dark reddish-blue haematoma in this part seen yesterday
Skeletal remains of the left pectoral fin post-debridemant. The remaining dying tissue will be debrided tomorrow
After the debridement and dressing
Video of Adolf on Day 2 of the Swim Bladder Prosthesis Implantation, shot before the debridement, dressing & water change
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