Ryukin

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There is a beautiful ryukin at a place here that sells garden supplies, and they have a water garden area, they have a nice selection of koi and other goldies for sale, and they've had these 2 huge ryukins for a long time, over a year.
Now their red a white male has a swim bladder problem, he can't stay up right and is on his back.
If I can get him form them free(since they think he is going to die) or cheap what quality of life would he have in one of these?
http://www.sullivanet.com/misc/fishie/addy-harness-schematic.gif

http://www.sullivanet.com/misc/fishie/addy-harness-schematic2.gif
http://www.sullivanet.com/misc/fishie/addy.htm

"Addy" looks ok in the pictures http://www.sullivanet.com/misc/fishie/photos-addy.htm.



Also, on a different note.. are there any round bodied fish with a single tail like a shubunkin? the same place had a fish labled as a ryukin that, to me, looks like a horribly bloated shubunkin, it has a single tail, and has a back curved inward, plus the skin is transparent looking form being stretched..? I may be able to get pictures sometime this week if I go back.
 
flaringshutter said:
Probably a tamasaba - similar to a single-tailed ryukin.

The harness could work, I know it worked for the person that came up with that harness, but a better option is to find a local fish vet and do surgery on the fish to correct the swimbladder problem. I don't know what that might cost you though.
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I looked, this one looks ill, and is transparent.

Well I think surgery would be out of the question in this house.. if I can get him I'll try the harness, and possibly find someone who would get him and do surgery.
 
T/N said:
what do you mean transparent?
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I mean it looks like he's filled with fluid, and his skin is stretched so much that you can see through it, there are no scales on his belly at all, just along his back and it looks like he's filled with a brown/yellowfluid of some kind.
And his back is bent inward, when he holds still he slowly floats to his side.
Pretty sad, and they're still trying to sell him for $129.
 
dpenguinfish said:
i did'nt know there was a fish vet
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There have always been vets that specialized in koi, since koi are a relatively commonly kept fish, have been around for centuries, and are large enough to treat by injection or surgery.
Just recently, though, there has been a boom in the number of standard, cat-and-dog vets branching out into aquatic medicine. Technology is good enough now that even small goldfish can undergo surgery without complications.
You can find fish vets in your area by going to aquavetmed.info. Here's an interesting little photo slideshow by NOVA that describes different fish surgeries and techniques. To see it you go to "watch the segment" on the bottom left and choose your viewing program.
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/sciencenow/3214/04.html
 
koi also can cost thousands of dollars whereas other fish cost a couple of dollars so it might not make sense to pay a vet possibly more than the monetary value.
 
I went to check them out a couple of days ago, the Ryukin and the bloated fish were dead. They said the other Ryukin(the bloated sick fish) 'exploded' and that someone for got to top the water off, and somehow the ryukin with swimbladder problems got herself stuck out of the water on a ledge.
 
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