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Thanks for all the nice comments and encouragement - and special thanks to Jsoong for all his detailed and knowledgeable advice and support which was absolutely vital! I also found a couple of videos on the web which really helped. In retrospect it is 5% doing it, and 95% first-timer anxiety...

Post-op update! After various domestic delays, I can now report on the outcome! See four images attached. 1. The first picture shows the growth as it was just before the operation. You can see that it is already significantly larger than when I first photographed it for this discussion...

Many thanks, Jsoong, for all the wonderful information! I think I've got a fairly complete picture now - it seems feasible (famous last words!) - so I'll start gathering up what I need!

Superb information - thank you! Of course the mind-bending bit of the video is the speed of the suture tieing in the demo in the last second or two! In the amateur tieing off description I found on the web, the author first tried dental floss, but two attempts failed because it came undone...

I've just found a website in which someone describes removing a growth (on the side of ther fish's mouth) by tieing it off. Any thoughts on that option? It might avoid the bleeding problem?

Thanks, Jsoong - very helpful again! Starting from the clues you gave me in your first message, I've been able to find a couple of useful-looking links: Sedate with Finquel or Clove Oil Gives what seem to be very clear sedation instructions for Finquel and clove oil. I'm in the UK, and some...

Many thanks, jsoong - very helpful, if slightly scary, advice! I did show the photo to the vet we normally take our cat to, and he looked very dubious and said: 'I wouldn't know how to anaesthetise a fish' - so veterinary advice doesn't look very promising. However your info has taken me a...

Many thanks for your nice comments on my now-not-very-gold goldfish! What a shame one can't tell it about its admirers! Being now about 15, he/she (see how ignorant I am!) tends to take life very quietly, though still with a bit if a flick and somersault at feeding time!

I have a 15 year old goldfish (I don't know the breed - was bought for my daughter when she was little!). About two months ago we noticed a small pea-sized orange lump near the end of its tail. This has grown quite rapidly into a lumpy shape - see photo (NB the 'other fish' in the photo is...