Bubble Eye Goldfish EMERGENCY

Question
I have three brand new Bubble Eye Goldfish which I put into my goldfish community 755 gallon pond. Yesterday morning I discovered one of them, one side of him, his bubble/Sac and half of his little body was stuck on the suction hose of my filter. The hose has a plastic grate like shield on the end which stopped him (and all the fish in the pond) from completely being sucked in.
The plastic grate on the hose was working well but I never thought of a Sac being sucked in. I have resorted to using a filter sponge on the hose now to avoid ANY other injury as this one......

I had to use tweezers' to remove his Sac/Bubble from the grate. It's been over 24 hours and he has survived but he looks VERY beat up. I moved him into a 20 gallon tank, set up with the pond water. I added some Melafix and stress coat into the water. I moved his two friends into the new tank as well but I have isolated the injured with a tank divider.

Here's the problem. His Sac is completely frayed and torn up. It flaps around and covers his eye when he swims. When he passes the bubble wand, tiny air bubbles get caught and stuck in his torn Sac. He seems to struggle trying to swim around with the stuck air in his torn Sac. What should I do to help him? Should I cut off the loose torn sac? How can I do that? How do you get a fish to stand still while you attempt to help him?
Is there ANYTHING else I should be doing for him?

If You can please share some wisdom I, nay, WE would really appreciate it!!
THANKS!
Christina

Answer
Hi Christina,
  First I have to say that I have no experience with bubble eye goldfish.  I'm really not sure what you should do.  If the sac flaps
around and causes him problems, then yes, trim it.  Use clean sharp
scissors.  Make sure that your hands are wet when you hold the fish
and just do it.  The longer you take doing it, the more traumatic it is.
Personally, I would not recommend anaesthatizing him, because the odds of of doing that correctly are low, and the trauma that it causes are probably worse than just snipping off the flap.

  I have to wonder why he got stuck on the filter in the first place. Pretty much any healthy fish would not get stuck unless the hose generates a very powerful vaccuum.   It is very possible that he was not doing so well prior to ending up stuck on the filter.

-- Ron
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