RandomWiktor
Rabid Betta Activist
Tiny Tim has had it very rough. When I got him, all of his fins were down to nubs, and he didn't eat for close to a week. They've since grown back, giving him long, flowing, beautiful fins indeed, but he would have finrot reoccurances in times of stress. The fins always grew back just fine.
Recently, he fell seriously ill and I almost lost him (You can see my thread "mystery illness" somewhere back on the main Tropical Fish" board). While he was ill, Massive chunks of his tail, dorsal, and ventral fins fell off within hours of showing symptoms of illness. He managed to pull through, but his fins are growing back a little.... funny? There was good connective tissue for the majority of the recovery, but in one spot where a particularly large chunk fell out, he grew a bunch of little, curly, red thread-like bits of fin, but they never connected and are just sortof... there. It makes him look terribly scruffy, but everything else is growing back fine and he isn't losing any fin (I know sometimes curly-cues can indicate fin rot, but these are new fin growth, not fin loss).
Should I be worried about this abnormal new fin growth, or is it typical for a betta who has severe damage to his fins to have some irregularities as they come back in? It doesn't seem to be affecting his swimming, so I'm not too worried, but I want to make sure that he doesn't need anything to assist them in growing back properly.
(Sorry I can't have a picture; my digital camera can only take blurry photos from a distance, so you wouldn't see anything but a red blob)
Recently, he fell seriously ill and I almost lost him (You can see my thread "mystery illness" somewhere back on the main Tropical Fish" board). While he was ill, Massive chunks of his tail, dorsal, and ventral fins fell off within hours of showing symptoms of illness. He managed to pull through, but his fins are growing back a little.... funny? There was good connective tissue for the majority of the recovery, but in one spot where a particularly large chunk fell out, he grew a bunch of little, curly, red thread-like bits of fin, but they never connected and are just sortof... there. It makes him look terribly scruffy, but everything else is growing back fine and he isn't losing any fin (I know sometimes curly-cues can indicate fin rot, but these are new fin growth, not fin loss).
Should I be worried about this abnormal new fin growth, or is it typical for a betta who has severe damage to his fins to have some irregularities as they come back in? It doesn't seem to be affecting his swimming, so I'm not too worried, but I want to make sure that he doesn't need anything to assist them in growing back properly.
(Sorry I can't have a picture; my digital camera can only take blurry photos from a distance, so you wouldn't see anything but a red blob)
Was the spot totally normal before when it grew out? My guess is that he may just have weak fins from all the trouble he had with them. 
