After 7 days of anti-biotic treatment in ICU, Baby (blue goldfish) obviously looks much better. The ulcer is all clear, the rotted fin will grow back in a few months if he does ok. I took a few close-up photos before I release him back to the pond with his friends.
He was getting crazy under isolation in his hospital treatment tank, he swam up and down the corner of the tank to try to find a way out. Normally, he should be quarantined for another week to observe the reaction after anti-biotic, but I think the longer I keep him in the tank; the higher the risk that he would die in stress. So I released him back to his friends in this evening, he looked immediately happier when he saw his friends all came by to say hi, but he was struggling to adjust to the water pressure, different water temperature and chemistry at the first 40 minutes.
Anyway, he would be closely monitored in the next 4 days, if anything abnormal should happen to him, he would be sent right back to the hospital again. To release him right now is to avoid further stress, the drug is already pretty strong to him, being on his own for a week was really strange to him, he is always swimming around with his friends. So hopefully this could take the stress out and he could recover slowly in the pond.
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