Month: September 2016

Sometimes sending abalone to a distant laboratory may cause more stress to animals, causing artefactual changes that make it difficult for the veterinary pathologist to interpret. By learning how to take necessary samples on-site, it will allow the veterinary pathologist to get a more accurate picture of what stressors the abalone are under.

This video covers more than just shucking an abalone. It details the anatomy, and how to safely remove the abalone from its shell, draw haemolymph, and sample organs so they would be available for histopathology, Perkinsus testing and molecular testing (including abalone ganglioneuritis caused by herpesvirus).

This comes from years of experience working at the Mt Pleasant Laboratories, co-authoring the publication on the National Abalone Health Survey (J. Handlinger et al.).

Watch at – https://youtu.be/vnms4gXOKik

At The Fish Vet, we can provide your staff with hands-on training, organise sampling equipment for your farm, as well as provide you Diagnostic Services,  site veterinary visits, and biosecurity audits. 

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Dr Richmond Loh
DipProjMgt, BSc, BVMS, MPhil (Pathology), MANZCVS (Aquatics & Pathobiology), CertAqV, CMAVA, NATA Signatory.
Aquatic Veterinarian & Veterinary Pathologist

THE FISH VET, AUSTRALIA – PERTH | MELBOURNE | TOWNSVILLE
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Ph: +61 (0)421 822 383

Skype: thefishvet
President WAVMA 2014
Adjunct Lecturer Murdoch University

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Join us on October 4, 2016 at 13:00 CEST (European Central Summer Time/Brussels, 11:00 GMT/UTC) for this free webinar (see in your local time zone).

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About this webinar: This presentation will cover veterinary procedures for removing skin and internal tumours or pseudo-tumours, on or in Koi, including patient preparation, surgery and post-surgical hospitalisation.

Learning Objectives – Participants will understand options for appropriate:
1. Anaesthesia during clinical evaluation & surgery;
2. Cryotherapy for skin tumours; and,
3. Surgical removal of tumours.

About the speaker: Dr Van de Sompel graduated in 1990 as a veterinary surgeon, with honours, from the University of Ghent. As part of a family veterinary practice with her husband that focuses on small (companion) animals, pigeons and other birds, and fish, she is the primary veterinarian who deals with fish patients on a daily basis. Typical cases seen involve ornamental fish, or consulting with sustainable aquaculture farms, including koi, other carp, sturgeons and various aquarium fish, and occasionally turtles.

Watch some of her work here.

This webinar is suitable for veterinarians, vet techs/nurses, vet students and veterinary practice staff.

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Interested but can’t join the live webinar? If you register for the live webinar and are unable to attend, you will be e-mailed a link to view the webinar at a later time.

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Seen the Walking Dead? Well, frankly, this would be the fish version.

Here I do a story on one of the worst cases of HITH in an oscar cichlid. And there’s no evidence pointing to Hexamita as a cause!

Watch and tell me what you think.

https://youtu.be/_jOIzi5macs

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Yours sincerely,

Dr Richmond Loh
DipProjMgt, BSc, BVMS, MPhil (Pathology), MANZCVS (Aquatics& Pathobiology), CertAqV, NATA Signatory.

Aquatic Veterinarian & Veterinary Pathologist.
PERTH | MELBOURNE | TOWNSVILLE
THE FISH VET – AUSTRALIA.

Aquatic Veterinary Medical & Diagnostic Services.
http://www.thefishvet.com.au
Ph: +61 421 822 383

Q: Where do fish go shopping?

Answer: in the “Sea”-ty!

Have a FINtastic week! R <+>{

This week you’re in for a real treat!

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Have a FIN-tastic weekend!

A tapeworm, never before found in Australian humans, has been reportedly removed from a three-year-old boy in South Australia.

Analysis at Murdoch University revealed the boy from the coastal town of Eyre Peninsula was infected with a Pacific Broad Tapeworm.

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Aquatic Veterinarian & Veterinary Pathologist
THE FISH VET, AUSTRALIA – PERTH | MELBOURNE | TOWNSVILLE

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• President WAVMA 2014
• Adjunct Lecturer Murdoch University
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Professor Victoria Braithwaite, Fisheries and Biology at Penn State University

Co-presented with the Human Animal Research Network and the Sydney Environment Institute

Fish, with their lack of facial expressions or recognisable communication, are often overlooked when it comes to welfare. Annually, millions of fish are caught on barbed hooks, or left to die by suffocation on the decks of fishing boats – should we be concerned about this?

Victoria Braithwaite explores the question of fish pain and suffering, and explains what we now understand about fish neurobiology and behavior that helps us appreciate how fish perceive and experience their world…

Event details

When:6.00pm – 7.30pm, 7 November 2016.
Where:Law School LT104
Level 1, Law School Annex
Eastern Avenue
The University of Sydney
Venue location
Cost:Free, with online registrations required
RSVP:Register online now by entering your details at the bottom of the page. Click ‘register’ once and wait for the screen to refresh. You will receive a confirmation email in your inbox shortly after.

Read more – http://whatson.sydney.edu.au/events/published/sydney-ideas-professor-victoria-braithwaite

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Yours sincerely,

Dr Richmond Loh
DipProjMgt, BSc, BVMS, MPhil (Pathology), MANZCVS (Aquatics& Pathobiology), CertAqV, NATA Signatory.

Aquatic Veterinarian & Veterinary Pathologist.
PERTH | MELBOURNE | TOWNSVILLE
THE FISH VET – AUSTRALIA.

Aquatic Veterinary Medical & Diagnostic Services.
http://www.thefishvet.com.au
Ph: +61 421 822 383

World Small Animal Veterinary Association Congress, Cartagena, Colombia, 27-30 September 2016.

Join Dr Loh, representing the WAVMA, at his lectures in Colombia!

Session 1

Lecture Title: The appaling state of pet fish welfareLecture Title: The appalling state of pet fish welfare.

Date: 29-09-16

Time: 15:30-16:15

Stream Title: WSAVA stream

Session Title: Wellness/Welfare

Session 2

Lecture Title: Practical water quality, what it means and how to fix it?

Date: 30-09-16

Time: 09:30-10:15

Stream Title: Stream 2

Session Title: Fish disease – sponsored by WAVMA

Session 3

Lecture Title: Fish diagnostics, what to look for?

Date: 30-09-16

Time: 10:15-11:00

Stream Title: Stream 2

Session Title: Fish disease – sponsored by WAVMA

Session 4

Lecture Title: Common fish surgical procedures and anaesthesia.

Date: 30-09-16

Time: 11:45-12:30

Stream Title: Stream 2

Session Title: Fish disease – sponsored by WAVMA

Session 5

Lecture Title: Aquatic case studies.

Date: 30-09-16

Time: 12:30-13:15

Stream Title: Stream 2

Session Title: Fish disease – sponsored by WAVMA

The WSAVA World Congress is an internationally recognised veterinary congress with a scientific program of the highest standard produced in alternating regions reflecting the local culture and veterinary diversity. The scientific program includes two streams organised by the local host association designed for the regions’ practicing veterinarians.
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Yours sincerely,

Dr Richmond Loh

DipProjMgt, BSc, BVMS, MPhil (Pathology), MANZCVS (Aquatics & Pathobiology), CertAqV, CMAVA, NATA Signatory.
Aquatic Veterinarian & Veterinary Pathologist
THE FISH VET, AUSTRALIA – PERTH | MELBOURNE | TOWNSVILLE
Mobile Aquatic Veterinary Medical & Diagnostic Services.

W: http://www.thefishvet.com.au
Ph: +61 (0)421 822 383
Skype: thefishvet
President WAVMA 2014
Adjunct Lecturer Murdoch University
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Q: What is another word for eight abscesses?

A: Octo-pus!

Sorry for being so gross. It’s the pathologist in me coming out. Quite a good variation to, “What you call eight cats” if I say so myself 😛

Have a FINtastic week! R <+>{

I’ve spent the last 15 YEARS working not just with fish, but histopathology as well.

Now these researchers are saying that pigeons can learn similar skills in 15 DAYS!!!

The authors conclude that pigeons are “effective, tractable, informative, statistically interpretable and cost effective medical image observers.”

It is alarming that this sort of work is published. Would you want your tumour diagnosed by a qualified (veterinary) pathologist, or by a bird?

Read more here – http://www.ava.com.au/13628

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Yours sincerely,

Dr Richmond Loh
DipProjMgt, BSc, BVMS, MPhil (Pathology), MANZCVS (Aquatics& Pathobiology), CertAqV, NATA Signatory.

Aquatic Veterinarian & Veterinary Pathologist.
PERTH | MELBOURNE | TOWNSVILLE
THE FISH VET – AUSTRALIA.

Aquatic Veterinary Medical & Diagnostic Services.
http://www.thefishvet.com.au
Ph: +61 421 822 383