Hey All! New To Fish Keeping & Need Advise:)

[Ajones89]

Hi all

I have a fully cycled 25gallon tank, 205 fluval external filter, water levels are perfect, no problems there.
Added fish about 4 weeks ago, I have 6 tiger barbs in there and they seemed to be pretty happy, didn't seem to be nipping going on.
But I started to notice that they were all picking on one tiger barb all of a sudden & nipped a little bit off his lower tail fin off.
So as I'm new to this I went back to the aquatic shop & asked advice, he said to keep an eye on it & his tail would
grow back, but it hasn't at all because the others just won't leave him alone, the poor thing.

I have now put him in a small quarantine tank because after closer inspection, I realized that his tail fin was bleeding a very tiny bit.
He can still swim about and seems much more active now i have separated him from the bullies!
I have read that tiger barbs pick on injured fish, so should I just keep him apart until his tail grows back?

All advise welcome please
thank you!

 

[Assaye]

If you can maintain good water stats in the quarantine tank, then I would keep him there until he's healed and happy. You have a filter and heater in there, right?

The addition of small amount of aquarium salts and a dash of Melafix should heal him up nicely.