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Show me your RESCUES!

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#1 ·
On this thread Please post your rescue pictures before and after recovery! This thread is not to replace the emergency treatment thread, but to only share successes. Also, please let us know your treatment for the rescue if any.

I will start with my two: Mr. Greenjeans and Red. Mr. Greenjeans was obtained for free from Petsmart on 8-4-12 in deplorable condition. Mr. Red was given to me by the Petsmart manager in September, because they could not do anything more for him -- all he could to is float at the top.

Mr. Greenjeans was treated with time and clean water. Mr. Red with just time and shallow water. He nows has a full one gallon tank soon to move into a 3 gal.

Rescues sometimes work!
 
#2 ·
Wow, great rescues! Good job! My rescue is crush<3 i got him from walmart. He had severe swim bladder and swam alot like red was in that pic. I gave him epsom salt treatment for 3 days, then his swim bladder was cured! Next was the fin rot. It wasnt too nad at first. Just some aq salt and he seemed fine. But then it started spreading , and i needed to medicate. Now crush is happy and healthy! His fins are growing back and he is now a very "unique" color. But we love him:
 
#4 ·
Mr. Greenjeans is gorgeous!
 
#6 ·
Magkiarp wasn't in as bad of shape of some of the other rescues on here, but he was the colorless short finned guy with lots of poo and debris in his tank.. He kind of floated toward the top of his aquarium the first few days that I had him, and he didn't have any interest in food.. I was worried he wouldn't make it.. but then wham! He was healthy and happy!

back in 1/14/12:



Most recent pic I have of him:
 
#9 ·
Mr Greenjeans also responded within a week and manly needed clean water......it was amazing how quickly he turned around! Congrats on your success!
haha just how manly clean is his water? :p
 
#11 ·
give him some old spice body wash. it makes me very manly-clean.
 
#12 · (Edited)
Lucky






Sushi




SLUGGLES












INDIA


I cant find any after pics of her but she just had a case of SBD









He had columnaris when i took him home >.<


Most just needed to be in some clean, warm water - high ammonia was causing the majority of the problems. The only two that were treated with meds were Sluggles and Kl Kabong. El Kabong for Maracyn 2 for the columnaris and Sluggles - i don;t remember what I gave him - a extra dose of everything I had. I picked him up a week before I was leaving Alaska for New York and out of 23..he was one of 2 to arrive in NY alive and in good health.
 
#15 ·
Mine isn't a "rescue" because I did pay for him. Anyway he was practically dead when I bought him lol This is Benze before and after! He is my pride and joy :)
 
#18 ·
Wow! I'm baffled by that change.
 
#20 ·
No actually, the fish manager asked me to take him since nothing they were doing seem to improve his condition. So I took him and basically gave him fresh water and time and he is looking fairly normal. Hate to see him leave, but he's going to a good home
 
#21 ·
Thanks for the lovely comments :) I was so close to not getting him I saw him at Petsmart and I really wanted a dragon scale. I wanted to wait and see if I saw something else I really liked so I went to a LFS and they had a beautiful dragon scale but I couldn't stop thinking about that poor pale fish at Petsmart so I went back that same day... and look at that he is a blue dragon scale haha

and technically I didn't pay for him he was a gift from my friend she came with me and wanted to pay for him lol
 
#22 · (Edited)
Maggie is my only rescue...epicbetta1224 got her for me, but she knew I had wanted to rescue Maggie...so she might not exactly be a rescue. Oh well! Here is the before/after pic.
 
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