Hi everyone. Brand-spanking new to the forum and joined specifically to get help!
We have a 29L freshwater tank. Our Syno, Spike, is 7" approx and probably close to 10 years old now. He's never really ever bothered the rest of our fish in the tank; the only thing he'd do is do away with a dead fish if we didn't get it out of the tank in time. He's been by himself for a few months now because, as our fish aged and died, we didn't add any. We ususally had hatchets, tetras of various kinds, corys, ghost cats, and various live-bearers over the years. Come to think of it, we had a large 6" fantail goldfish with him when he was smaller... Anyway, last night, we added 3, 3-inch fantail goldfish and everything was good through the evening. Upon getting up this morning, I went to check our fish and their tails are torn to shreds! And the one with a gorgeous white pearl scale with bright orange is missing much of it's scales now as well, as it's tail is shredded...
We've evicted Spike into a large bucket, just to separate everyone. We have added stress coat to the tank. We're going to pick up slime coat, too. Watching the white one, it doesn't look too hopeful, the poor thing is really beat up, but still swimming around & eating this morning. The other two have less-than beautiful tails, but no other major damage. What now?? Is there any hope? Will their tails ever heal and go back to full and flowy? What can we do to ensure they stay healthy while they heal??
And what on earth do we do with Spike??
My heart is breaking for all of our poor fishies, including poor evicted Spike... Thank you, in advance, for all of your help!!!
We have a 29L freshwater tank. Our Syno, Spike, is 7" approx and probably close to 10 years old now. He's never really ever bothered the rest of our fish in the tank; the only thing he'd do is do away with a dead fish if we didn't get it out of the tank in time. He's been by himself for a few months now because, as our fish aged and died, we didn't add any. We ususally had hatchets, tetras of various kinds, corys, ghost cats, and various live-bearers over the years. Come to think of it, we had a large 6" fantail goldfish with him when he was smaller... Anyway, last night, we added 3, 3-inch fantail goldfish and everything was good through the evening. Upon getting up this morning, I went to check our fish and their tails are torn to shreds! And the one with a gorgeous white pearl scale with bright orange is missing much of it's scales now as well, as it's tail is shredded...
We've evicted Spike into a large bucket, just to separate everyone. We have added stress coat to the tank. We're going to pick up slime coat, too. Watching the white one, it doesn't look too hopeful, the poor thing is really beat up, but still swimming around & eating this morning. The other two have less-than beautiful tails, but no other major damage. What now?? Is there any hope? Will their tails ever heal and go back to full and flowy? What can we do to ensure they stay healthy while they heal??
And what on earth do we do with Spike??
My heart is breaking for all of our poor fishies, including poor evicted Spike... Thank you, in advance, for all of your help!!!
Also add some aquarium salt. One of my fish had It's long pretty tail chewed over half off about 4 weeks ago and it's looking like it will be full size in another 3 weeks. Your fish will do the same and look perfect again.
