My Poor Beautiful Boy

[xweeqtx]

My gorgeous HM Thai isn't looking very well.
Was out early morning yesterday, and didn't get back to late last night. Never checked anything til this morning, and poor Thai looks as if he's been stressed by something and munched on his tail, or something has eaten away at it within 24 hours
My questioning of the situation is the fact that has fins look clamped, and have a greying edge around them suggesting a possible fin rot. He's sitting about under the filter, but still comes up to greet me at the tank and is eating fine. The water para's are also normal, and the other boy[divided tank] is absolutely fine. I'm totally stumped for ideas apart from the fact that he wasn't fed yesterday - could this make him chomp down on his own tail? But surely this wouldn't affect all of his fins?

 

[devon_charm]

I would seperate him from the other boy and do a water change to stop any possibility of it spreading to the other boy. It sounds like fin rot to me tho i'm not sure why that would cause so much loss on his tail unless he has done it himself as you say. Not feeding him for a day would not cause this i always miss one feeding a week. I would pop some melafix in with him and keep a close eye

 

[xweeqtx]

I would seperate him from the other boy and do a water change to stop any possibility of it spreading to the other boy. It sounds like fin rot to me tho i'm not sure why that would cause so much loss on his tail unless he has done it himself as you say. Not feeding him for a day would not cause this i always miss one feeding a week. I would pop some melafix in with him and keep a close eye

I'll be doing a water change soon and adding melafix for the both of them, since the other boy I had delivered on wednesday has the tiniest bit of fin damage from the trip which I never noticed until close examination in their tank so will do the both of them some good. It's such a shame, poor thing looks like a comb tail at the moment.

 

[xweeqtx]

Well, after a water change and a bit of rest his fins are unclamped now, so he's finally got his "fluttery" fins back but got some growing to do.

 

[liz2]

glad he seems a bit better

 

[bubblesburst80]

good to hear he's doing better, hopefully some tlc should have his fins back to normal in no time

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