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Vet gets fish back in the swim

Julius M. Tepper, DVM of the Long Island

Photo credit: Randee Daddona | Julius M. Tepper, DVM of the Long Island Fish Hospital in Maonorville, makes a house call to a Koi pond in Bridgehampton. (June 12, 2013)

There was something odd going on in Joseph Friscia's home aquarium in May. So he found a doctor who makes tank calls: Julius Tepper, a Manorville veterinarian who runs the Long Island Fish Hospital.

Tepper, who operates the practice out of his car and calls himself "Doc," is a veterinarian who has been caring for domestic and exotic pets since 1976 and for fish only since 1998.

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