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How long have you been adding salt? I found they generally act lethargic whenever they feel unwell, so if we can fix the fin issue, he should perk up. I used interpet's fin rot meds. I don't know if that's easily accessible where you are, but if not there will likely be something similar.

No, it's just different pigmentation

Fins take months to regrow fully. If he seems happy in himself and the fins aren't deteriorating, you're likely on the right track! Keep up with your water changes to give him the best conditions possible to recover.

Do you mean that the two spawns grew differently, or the size variation between fry in the same spawn?

Is it quite a new tank? You could try increasing how often you do water changes to improve the quality just in case that's affecting it. I'd also use aquarium salt and methalyne blue.

This looks similar to what my Jasmine went through some time ago. I used aquarium salt 1g per liter of 1 tbsp per gallon and APIs fin rot meds for 1 week. I kept the salt on longer, and over several weeks the fins started to spread out and look less clumped together. It takes several months for...

I'm going to start off by saying I've not seen this before, so if anyone more experienced comments, feel free to go with what they advise. I think it's been mentioned the -fix products damage their labarynth organs. Is that bathing salt the same thing as aquarium salt? My usual place to start...

Poor boy! This is well beyond my knowledge, but I just wanted to say well done for buying a sick fish and trying to help him. I hope he gets better!

I asked his breeder. Apparently the father hatched eggs successfully first time.

Yeah, i saw numerous wraps with her releasing 8-12 eggs per wrap, with him positioned as per the picture throughout - no early break away to collect the first few eggs

Yep, I leave them to it and check on them frequently. As soon as I see shes over the other side of the tank hiding I remove her, being careful not to stir the water too much with the net. Maybe they aren't fertile, but the wraps looked good to my eye.

He wraps in the early afternoon, looks after them well until I go to bed, then in the morning they're gone and his fatherly actions are gone. I need this male's genes for what I want to achieve, so I need to figure out how to get the short-fin to care for this male's eggs.

One of my males has eaten his eggs twice now. I've heard using a different male to hatch eggs has been done, but I was wondering how I'd go about doing this. I do have another male with a currently perfect track record I could use. Has anyone here actually succeeded with this before? Any advice...

An old picture of him from last month