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i had the same thing, this past friday. but i din't think of this, next time i might do this.

Wow, you must have steady hands, and good luck to you fry.

The fry are doing fantastic. As for as the surgery, I never would have done it if my fish wasn't already dead. I couldn't cut my girl's head off alive...

I hope the rest of your fry make it. I don't think I could do it, but then have never really been faced with that problem before.

i have done many c-sections, but lost all the fry from each of them

the most recent was a female who had been doing realy bad for a while, so i decided to put her out, then i cut her head off, and went in for the fry, i got em all out, but, sadly none seemed to want to come out of the clove oil, even after a few rinces, they dident come out oh well, atleast the mommy isnt suffering anymore (oh, and the fish was my science teachers boy is he gunna be suprised to see 2 females missing (another dided in the comunity shortly after giving birth))

Thanks for all the support and well wishes. There are seven remaining at this point and they seem to be doing well. I didn't have to kill the mother, she had already died. Its wasn't a fun excercise, but it seems to have paid off...

Well done manborg. Hope the fry will survive.


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I know this is the bad question, but did you put the mother to death first?

I tried it once, head off the guppy and then went for the fry, but I lost them all.

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WOW that's an amazing story. Well done and good luck with your new babies.

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On Saturday I noticed that my female swordtail was very slow and not swimming around too much. She was very swollen and I figured she was ready to give birth, so I put her in the birthing bin. About an hour later she was dead and hadn't released the fry. So not wanting to lose the fry as well as the mother, I preformed an emergency cesarean on her to release the fry!

At first they were all balled up and I was certain they were all dead, but then an hour later some of them started to unroll and within six hours there we several moving around. In the end there were seven or eight fry that survived and the rest were still born.

Has anyone ever done anything like this before? Am I completely nutts?

good luck to the remaining fry!!! i hope they live a happy and long life.

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I have heard of people doing it for horses and deer and other animals...now they can add fish.

Sadly, I had no good utensils and had to use the tip of a steak knife. I just carfull sliced the stomach and swished the mother fish around the breeding bin, a bunch came lose and the others were forced out carefully... It was sad, but better than losing all the fish.

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That's awesome.

What did you use to do it? It must have been difficult to do it without damaging any of the fry.

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Woah, thats amazing Good work!

Never heard of that before, but hey, you saved some fry! Hope they all are healthy.

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ha you could be on ER.... nope never heard of a c-section on a fish

I guess you could say it was a more "hands on" approach. I hope to never do it again...

Nope, never heard of this before. Well done though, doc. It does give a little extra edge to the whole breeding thingy!

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