Will Nipped Fins Grow Back?

[Rattail]

My 4 skunk loaches are having a ball nipping the tail fins of my glass cats. Will the tail fins grow back? I have a heavily planted aquarium, so the next step is to figure out how to remove the skunk loaches (but that is in another topic).

Please advise?
Richard

 

[erk628]

My 4 skunk loaches are having a ball nipping the tail fins of my glass cats. Will the tail fins grow back? I have a heavily planted aquarium, so the next step is to figure out how to remove the skunk loaches (but that is in another topic).

Please advise?
Richard

Yes they will grow back as long as the nipping stops!

 

[rockerBOO]

Glass cats can have a lot of trouble with stress. So unless the loaches stop it might be best to separate them.

 

[Tokis-Phoenix]

The fins will grow back but only once you separate the fish and the nipping stops- add a bit of melafix to the water, as this will help prevent secondary infection setting into the fin wounds. You should keep an eye out for deseases like finrot and columnaris as these are common deseases brought on by stress or injury in fish.

 

[Rattail]

Thanks folks.

 

[Rattail]

Ok, this story has a sad ending. I caught all the glass cats. (took a while...) and bought a spare heater. I asked my LFS whether it was the right thing to do, he said yes, so I put the cats into a black, all-purpose plastic container, with a heater, power head, and a lot of plants. The next day, ALL 13 were dead.

I discussed the matter with another LFS, who suggested that the plastic of the container might have had toxic resins in because it was not of "food grade".

So there. The moral of the story? NEVER trust anyone (no matter of how highly reputed they are). The same LFS who told me that the skunk loaches would be fine in my aquarium, also said it was ok to set up a quarantine tank in a black, all-purpose container (which, by the way, had not ever been used for any other pourpose). Up to this point, I had double checked all information gleaned, before adding fish to my aquarium. This time I simply took his advice and bought the skunk loaches. Agressive little buggers!

I still have to catch them though.....

 

[kevin007]

From my experience, there are alot of fish listed as community fish, which is true, but "certain types" of community, I would say sword tails are community fish, but truth is, they are the real evil and sneaky types that sneak up on my cories and nip them, however, there isnt one book that tells you they arn't community fish. I think it comes down to the types of community, tanks mates, and tank size.

Im trying to find the "perfect" community, absolutely no conflicts and i do not tolerate fin nipping.

The only perfect community fish is the corydoras imo

sorry to hear about your glass cats

 

[Henk Hugo]

Ok, this story has a sad ending. I caught all the glass cats. (took a while...) and bought a spare heater. I asked my LFS whether it was the right thing to do, he said yes, so I put the cats into a black, all-purpose plastic container, with a heater, power head, and a lot of plants. The next day, ALL 13 were dead.

I discussed the matter with another LFS, who suggested that the plastic of the container might have had toxic resins in because it was not of "food grade".

Good day Richard,

As all of us on the South African forums told you the Adis containers are indeed food grade. I went to trouble of phoning them and finding out, the assured me it is safe to use for human food as well and animal feeds.

What killed your fish is a combination of NH3 and lead poisoning as you did not add any filtration to the tank and used lead strips to hold the plants down. I suggest you tell the full story on all of the forums and not just little bits here and there.