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[angel308]

Hi guys,

Just a quickie please. One of my female guppys appears to have a frayed tail. She looks healthy, no other signs of illness at all, swimming fine and eating but she has very slight fraying on her tail. Also I have 7 neon tetra's, 1 when I got it from my LFS had part of it's tail missing and the tail looked frayed, now 2 others have the same thing. I've had all these fish for other 2 months now.....do you think they are just bullying each other and fin nipping or could it be fin rot?

Thanks in advance guys.

p.s my stock in total is 2 Mollies, 2 Opaline Gourami, 7 neon tetras and 7 guppies (3 female, 4 male - I have a nursery with 12 fry in right now, most will be given away but any females I get will be kept to balance out the girl/boy ratio, as 2 of the males developed from 4 fry that were in the bag when I brought the females) and a plec. Tank size is 125L (uk) and all watwr stats are fine : Amonia 0, Nitrite 0, Nirate 25ppm, PH 6.4, temp 26'c constant.

Thanks guys x

 

[Proud Pastry]

Hi guys,

Just a quickie please. One of my female guppys appears to have a frayed tail. She looks healthy, no other signs of illness at all, swimming fine and eating but she has very slight fraying on her tail. Also I have 7 neon tetra's, 1 when I got it from my LFS had part of it's tail missing and the tail looked frayed, now 2 others have the same thing. I've had all these fish for other 2 months now.....do you think they are just bullying each other and fin nipping or could it be fin rot?

Thanks in advance guys.

p.s my stock in total is 2 Mollies, 2 Opaline Gourami, 7 neon tetras and 7 guppies (3 female, 4 male - I have a nursery with 12 fry in right now, most will be given away but any females I get will be kept to balance out the girl/boy ratio, as 2 of the males developed from 4 fry that were in the bag when I brought the females) and a plec. Tank size is 125L (uk) and all watwr stats are fine : Amonia 0, Nitrite 0, Nirate 25ppm, PH 6.4, temp 26'c constant.

Thanks guys x

Hello
I believe mollies have been known to nip the fins of fish with long flowing tails, so that could be the problem.
I have a tetra serpae that has been nipping my guppies so I'm exchanging him today... don't want my guppies getting fin rot. :C
Your fishies tails will be fine Just do a 20% water change once a week and add in some Stress Coat and keep an eye on them
If things get worse and they do develop fin rot, take them out of the tank and put them in a separate one if you have one, and treat them with melafix.
(and do not put melafix or other treatments in a tank with fish that don't need it)

I hope this helps!

 

[angel308]

Hi guys,

Just a quickie please. One of my female guppys appears to have a frayed tail. She looks healthy, no other signs of illness at all, swimming fine and eating but she has very slight fraying on her tail. Also I have 7 neon tetra's, 1 when I got it from my LFS had part of it's tail missing and the tail looked frayed, now 2 others have the same thing. I've had all these fish for other 2 months now.....do you think they are just bullying each other and fin nipping or could it be fin rot?

Thanks in advance guys.

p.s my stock in total is 2 Mollies, 2 Opaline Gourami, 7 neon tetras and 7 guppies (3 female, 4 male - I have a nursery with 12 fry in right now, most will be given away but any females I get will be kept to balance out the girl/boy ratio, as 2 of the males developed from 4 fry that were in the bag when I brought the females) and a plec. Tank size is 125L (uk) and all watwr stats are fine : Amonia 0, Nitrite 0, Nirate 25ppm, PH 6.4, temp 26'c constant.

Thanks guys x

Hello
I believe mollies have been known to nip the fins of fish with long flowing tails, so that could be the problem.
I have a tetra serpae that has been nipping my guppies so I'm exchanging him today... don't want my guppies getting fin rot. :C
Your fishies tails will be fine Just do a 20% water change once a week and add in some Stress Coat and keep an eye on them
If things get worse and they do develop fin rot, take them out of the tank and put them in a separate one if you have one, and treat them with melafix.
(and do not put melafix or other treatments in a tank with fish that don't need it)

I hope this helps!

Thanks Proud, appreciate the reply. I already do 25% water changes once a week or more if necessary (I had a bacterial bloom a week ago, pain in the bum but did changes daily, it's now cleared up!). I'll keep an eye on them, they all act fine, swim round happily, when I try to net them they are like the wind! lol So I don't think they are ill......I'll just have to watch out for the bully......thanks again x

 

[angel308]

Picture of my tetra and their tails.

Sorry here it is, forgot to push the attach button! D'oh!

 

[Proud Pastry]

Hi guys,

Just a quickie please. One of my female guppys appears to have a frayed tail. She looks healthy, no other signs of illness at all, swimming fine and eating but she has very slight fraying on her tail. Also I have 7 neon tetra's, 1 when I got it from my LFS had part of it's tail missing and the tail looked frayed, now 2 others have the same thing. I've had all these fish for other 2 months now.....do you think they are just bullying each other and fin nipping or could it be fin rot?

Thanks in advance guys.

p.s my stock in total is 2 Mollies, 2 Opaline Gourami, 7 neon tetras and 7 guppies (3 female, 4 male - I have a nursery with 12 fry in right now, most will be given away but any females I get will be kept to balance out the girl/boy ratio, as 2 of the males developed from 4 fry that were in the bag when I brought the females) and a plec. Tank size is 125L (uk) and all watwr stats are fine : Amonia 0, Nitrite 0, Nirate 25ppm, PH 6.4, temp 26'c constant.

Thanks guys x

Hello
I believe mollies have been known to nip the fins of fish with long flowing tails, so that could be the problem.
I have a tetra serpae that has been nipping my guppies so I'm exchanging him today... don't want my guppies getting fin rot. :C
Your fishies tails will be fine Just do a 20% water change once a week and add in some Stress Coat and keep an eye on them
If things get worse and they do develop fin rot, take them out of the tank and put them in a separate one if you have one, and treat them with melafix.
(and do not put melafix or other treatments in a tank with fish that don't need it)

I hope this helps!

Thanks Proud, appreciate the reply. I already do 25% water changes once a week or more if necessary (I had a bacterial bloom a week ago, pain in the bum but did changes daily, it's now cleared up!). I'll keep an eye on them, they all act fine, swim round happily, when I try to net them they are like the wind! lol So I don't think they are ill......I'll just have to watch out for the bully......thanks again x

Sounds like you're doing all the right things then! :3
If they're acting like they usually do then that's good. You can usually tell if the fish has fin rot because their fins/tails will look very different
Hopefully they'll stop picking on the poor guppy
I'm not sure if this will help, but you could always try putting the bully in an isolation tank for a while or a breeding box if you have one, they also double as an isolation box