goggles

well before i knew any betta i had luke in my community tank and hie fins got nipped by my tetras i think. he is noe in his own 10g and happy but will his fins grow back?

Lonely Angel

I would suggest adding some garlic guard, vitachem, and/or fish protector. These will help his fins heal. Also, keep an eye on him to make sure he doesn't get fin rot from the tears. If he does you can add rid-fungus.

When I first got my Ianto one of his ventral fins had been mostly torn off and it grew back fine, so I think Luke will grow his tail back.

Bede

I totally agree with the recommendation of Vita-Chem and Garlic Guard.

When I got my Pongo he'd lost alot of finnage, it had literally rotted off while he was in the cup.

Lots of good food (I fed him only bloodworms for about the first month),fresh,super clean tank water and the vita-chem and garlic. The rot cleared up and his fins are growing back in.

I soaked his food in the garlic but just dropped the Vita-Chem right in the tank water. He'd gulp it right in when he saw it.

HTH!

joycey1221

Yah, his fins will grow back

goggles

thanks, it's not a good pic but this is him just before the attack. once his fin has grown back i will get a better pic up.

Athena

Hi - I had a similar problem recently. I was ill-advised by a staff member at the aquarium centre who said it was ok to put both a male and female Betta fish in a tank together, so long as there was just one male. Well - about a week later I found the poor male Betta (named Sammy, who originally looked just like yours in that pic - lovely deep blue colour with beautiful flowing finnage) - and he was in a terrible state. He had less finnage on him than the female!! I've since discovered that putting a male and female together are not a good idea unless you are trying to breed, as the female can attack the male if he bothers her too much.

Anyway, all of Sammy's glorious fins had been bitten off - I'm not exaggerating either - there was barely anything left of them. Of course, I rescued him from the tank and luckily had a spare mini-tank for isolation purposes. Since then I have put him into a 1foot cube tank on his own and he is now a happy chappy again.

Oh, and yes, I am pleased to say that one month on, his finnage is growing back, although not as deeply coloured as before but he is looking more like a male again now.

With a lot of care and attention and good food, yours should recover just as well as my Sammy.

Athena

COBettaCouple

His fins grow back and the main thing is to keep his water extra clean and keep any infection from getting started. Lonely Angel's suggestions all help, but even just extra water changes will help if you can't find them. Organic garlic juice could be used if you can't find a garlic supplement liquid at the pet shop.

goggles

thanks for all the great advice people. he is doing well and is happy. i will keep you informed as to his progress

Allie

Some sort of stress coat and clean water should get those fins back in shape in days.
I find if the nips or chunks of fins are too close to the body they don't seem to grow all the way back tho.

Tazmiche

Goggles, you can get garlic guard over here, i'm sure i got it from Seapets, i will check. Can't get Vita-chem but Fishtamin from Sera is brilliant stuff. API Stresscoat or my fave Nutrifin Aquaplus.

Can you tell i have dealt with this too!! My US buddies on here taught me alot and between us we have found products we can get here in Europe. I have had great results from these 3. I'll post links to help you but yes, my tatty boy Sky has regrowth after BAD finrot!!

Tazmiche

http://www.seapets.co.uk/view-produc...egory/916.html

Paraguard i use aswell

http://www.sera.de/index.php?id=358&L=1&type=

I recommend sera as there finrot product halted, the finrot! ( did i say that already? lost track whilst finding links!!)