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The Fish Vet, part of a conglomerate of Aquatic Animal Veterinarians.
Field visits can be arranged in Western Australia, Tasmania, Victoria, New South Wales & Queensland. Services range from providing fish medicine & surgery, histopathology (including second opinions), health audits of ornamental, commercial aquaculture and holding aquarium systems, wholesale & retail trade, live animal or seafood movement. |
Aquaculturalists
• Disease investigation, prevention & surveillance (including histopathology);
• System design;
• Technical training;
• Laboratory back-up.
Ornamental Retailers
• Tailored health program;
• Disease risk analysis;
• Vet-Checked fish for your customers;
• Laboratory back-up.
Pet Fish
• Full clinical work-up of your fish problem;
• Microscopic examination;
• Advice on new tank and pond set-ups, husbandry, feeding, etc;
• Home visits (within the Perth metro area) – the ideal way for the clinical investigation of disease for the larger or more delicate species;
• Water quality testing (temperature, pH, ammonia, nitrite, nitrate, KH, GH, copper, chlorine, iron, phosphate, calcium) - the most useful diagnostic test as a great proportion of fish diseases are due to poor water quality;
• Autopsy – a useful procedure in the investigation of fish disease;
• Histology;
• Minor surgery (e.g. lump removal, etc.);
• Laboratory back-up;
• …….and much more.
• *NB: Fees are commensurate with either the difficulty of or the years of training required to properly care for patients. Please also note that consulting services are not conducted by email without prior agreement in terms of fees and charges.
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| Dr Richmond Loh is a fish veterinarian, diagnosing fish diseases and provides fish medicine. The Fish Vet has a mobile veterinary clinic and makes home visits to see your fish in their aquarium, pond, tank or dam. So whether you are a fish keeper, fish hobbyist, fish farmer, aquaculturist, ornamental fish retailer, fish wholesaler, fish exporter or a public aquarium or zoo, The Fish Vet can see you. Some of Dr Loh's patients include Siamese fighting fish, guppies, goldfish, koi carp, cichlid (such as oscars, discus, angel fish and Malawi cichlids), marine fishes (such as clown fish, seahorses, sharks, rays), or large fishes such as murray cod, giant gourami and saratoga (the Aussie version of arowana or dragon fish). |
Dr Loh does water testing (looking at pH, ammonia, nitrite, nitrate, carbonate hardness, general hardness, water temperature, etc.), utilises a microscope to examine your fish's ailments and has access to laboratory testing. Dr Loh has a mobile fish pharmacy, and carries all the medications (e.g. metronidazole or Flagyl, antibiotics such as enrofloxacin or Baytril, praziquantel or fish wormer, fish anaesthetics) that can be dispensed immediately to treat your fish. He has all the fish dose rates and can give in-water medication or injections. Otherwise, veterinary prescriptions can be written if the drug is not in stock. |
| Common reasons why fish owners call The Fish Vet is because they have sick fish or had searched the internet about any of the following topics that may include viral infection, lymphocystis, gourami iridovirus, carp pox, herpesvirus, bacterial infection, bacterial ulcer, aeromonas, yersiniosis, Yersinia, vibrio, vibriosis, flavobacter, flexibacter, streptococcus iniae, mycobacteria, fish tb, fish tuberculosis, septicaemia, bacteraemia, fungal disease, saprolegnia, achlya, cotton wool disease, fish parasite, protozoal, white spot disease, ich, cryptocaryon, trichodina, chilodonella, costia, ichthyobodo, oodinium, amyloodinium, nematode, round worm, camallanus, flat worm, monogenetic trematode, digenean, flukes, dactylogyrus, gyrodactylus, lice, argulus, anchor worm, lernaea, zoonotic diseases, |
toxicity, bloat, swimbladder disease, swim bladder infection, pine cone appearance, dropsy, pop eye, popeye, exophthalmia, hikui, jumped out, goldfish laying on its side, hole in the head, head and lateral line erosion, HLLE, HITH, cotton wool disease, fin rot, redness, frayed fins, physical injury, buoyancy disorder, loss of appetite, ulcer disease, ulceration, lesions, haemorrhage, columnaris, wasting disease, velvet disease or not eating. |
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