My guppy's tail has a chunk missing? Will it grow back?

[Elissa389]

Hi everyone, I have a guppy, his name is Chad. I have had him for quite a while now and just a day ago, I noticed he had a lighter round patch in the middle of his tail. Within half an hour of noticing it, a small part of his tail had fallen off! I went to my local aquarium to ask about it and they said to add melafix and it would fix its self and be all fine but the next morning a whole hunk of this tail was gone! Just two days ago, I got a new guppy in my tank. I am not sure if this is correlated. My ammonia, nitrates and ph is all good, I also added some antibacterial (melafix). I also moved him into his own tank. Please help, I am very sad for my guppy, it has happened extremely rapidly! Will his tail grow back?

 

[Colin_T]

assuming the tail doesn't get infected, it should heal up without any problems.

monitor the wound and if it goes red then it has a bacterial infection. If it goes white and fluffy then it has a fungal infection.

 

[NickAu]

assuming the tail doesn't get infected,

Why would it? Lots of clean water and its not a problem it will grow back.

 

[Colin_T]

Any open wound can get infected and since fish live in a soup of microscopic organisms containing bacteria, fungus, viruses and protozoans, the risk of infection is always there.

The big question is what caused the section of tail to come off?