Techniques | Why is it emphasized to let the fish face upwards when applying medicine?
Goldfish rarely appear with muscle rot symptoms, and even if they do, it's usually easy to treat, just requiring some simple surgery.
The specific method is as follows: Take iodine (or red water tablets, or potassium permanganate crystals) and clean water and three clean cotton swabs ready; Remove the sick fish from its water, keeping the fish head up and tail down; With one hand holding the fish, use the other hand to pick out the rotten muscle tissue with a cotton swab;
Then rinse the wound with clean water; Then use a clean cotton swab to dry the wound and its surrounding water; Next, use a clean cotton swab to dab a little iodine on the wound and apply it evenly (or directly apply potassium permanganate crystals to the wound); Finally, use clean water to drizzle down from the fish's head, washing away any excess iodine from the wound.
Once all of this is finished, you can return the sick fish to clean water for recovery. During its recovery, you must ensure the cleanliness and hygiene of the water, which is very helpful for wound healing. It is important to note that whether using potassium permanganate crystals or red water tablets or high-concentration potassium permanganate solutions for treatment, the entire treatment process must not let these things flow into the fish's gills.
Therefore, it is necessary to ensure that the entire operation process always maintains the fish's mouth facing up, and when rinsing off residual drugs, it should also be drizzled down from the fish's head. If using red water tablets, as long as you don't let them flow into the fish's gills, you don't need to rinse with clean water afterwards. However, it is better to let the red water tablets dry slightly before returning them to clean water for feeding.
Sometimes, the muscle rot in goldfish doesn't start from the outside, but expands and develops internally in a continuous order. At this time, we can observe that the fish's muscle initially turns red internally, but the color of the affected area will become deeper and gradually spread outwards, eventually completely rotting. Faced with this situation, in addition to needing to perform the above surgical operations, it is best to feed a little antibacterial medicine. However, no matter how the rot starts from the outside, in the recovery period, feeding medicine is very beneficial.
There is also something to note that the rotten muscle will make it difficult for the goldfish to maintain its fluid concentration, and the nutrients in the body will seep out from the wound into the water, and fresh water will also flow into the goldfish's body, increasing the burden of excretion. If you directly apply potassium permanganate crystals to the wound, it can make the wound scab.
Red water tablets have similar effects, but the effect is slightly less than potassium permanganate crystals. If you use five-fold powder to fill the lesion or apply it to the wound, or even use it internally as a supplement for treatment or pour medicinal juice into the fish tank, it can have the effects of hemostasis and astringency. Similarly, ginseng has the effects of removing toxins and pus, promoting water and muscle, and can also increase the phagocytic ability of white blood cells and improve the immune function, and using ginseng as a supplementary drug for surgical treatment of sick fish can also accelerate the healing of the wound.
In foreign countries, some people also spray honey on the fish's wounds for treatment, besides its antibacterial and anti-inflammatory effects, the purpose is also to isolate the wound from contact with water.
Or appropriately add a little salt to the water to re-adjust the osmotic pressure, also has a good help.
