Read along with us as we share our most exceptional fish surgery cases!
Lemon
Lemon is a ranchu goldfish who was adopted with a slight oral deformity. Once day, when going after a large pellet, one side of her mouth luxated and obstructed her oral cavity. Dr. Sanders was able to correct the injury with a few well-placed sutures and Lemon was able to recover. Read more about her story here.
Lemon prior to her injury 
Lemon with her injured jaw 
Lemon post surgery with her sutures in place 
Dr. Sanders operating while hospital manager, Sara, administers anesthesia via a syringe. 
Lemon post suture removal.
Rocky
We don’t know why he did it, but Rocky, a shovelnose catfish, decided that the rocks at the bottom of his tank looked particularly tasty. He ended up eating almost a pound of them and they got stuck in his stomach. Dr. Sanders performed surgery to open the stomach and remove the rocks. Read more about Rocky here.
Rocky prior to surgery Rocky up on our operating table 
Dr. Sanders pulls individual rocks out of the stomach 
Rocky post-surgery Tasty rocks
Sparky
Our buddy Sparky presented with a HUGE tumor on his eye. Rather than trying to cut the tumor away from the delicate cornea, Dr. Sanders elected to remove the eye. Sparky healed up great and you can never even tell an eye was there to begin with. Read his full story here.
Sparky and his eye tumor Getting ready to remove eye+tumor. Sparky just post-op One year post eyeball removal
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