Help My Guppy’s Tail!!

I’ve had 3 male guppies for around 9 months in my community tank. Yesterday I impulsively bought a female betta to add to the tank, thinking females were less aggressive. I let her float in the tank in her own container for quite some time while acclimating her and she didn’t display any aggression toward the other fish around her. Eventually I let her into the tank and she kept to herself, sometimes hiding in some plants. I observed her on and off and didn’t see any aggression, even during feeding time she kept to the side. Fast forward to this morning and one guppy is missing half his tail and another is missing a small chunk. She still doesn’t really show signs of aggression except when I saw her chase the half-tail guppy at feeding time, but even my neon tetras were bugging him so I wasn’t sure. But she is the only thing that would cause this type of damage. I did add a new piece of decor but it wouldn’t have torn this guys’ tail up this badly! So, to my question...
How can I help heal this guppy’s tail? I will be returning the female betta because I don’t want injured fishies! I’ve lowered the power of my filter because he seemed to struggle a bit in the current. I’ll do frequent partial water changes but anything else? Aquarium salts? Thanks!

 

Never owned a guppy however, when my betta bit his own fins, I’d use a bit of fresh water aquarium salt with every water change and kept his tank pristine (no ammonia/nitrites and minimal nitrates less than 10ppm) and that did the trick.

Just look up aquarium salt with the fish you keep to see if they have any sensitivities to it. If they don’t then I’d recommend using the aq salt. It also keeps infections away.

 

What size is your tank and what else if anything do you have with them..

 

Thank you! I’ll look up if any of the fish have sensitivities to aquarium salt!

Never owned a guppy however, when my betta bit his own fins, I’d use a bit of fresh water aquarium salt with every water change and kept his tank pristine (no ammonia/nitrites and minimal nitrates less than 10ppm) and that did the trick.

Just look up aquarium salt with the fish you keep to see if they have any sensitivities to it. If they don’t then I’d recommend using the aq salt. It also keeps infections away.

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What size is your tank and what else if anything do you have with them..

I have a 20 gallon with the 3 male guppies, 5 neon tetras, 3 albino cities and 3 kuhlI loaches...

 

At far as I know the loachs can't take salt because they do not have scales so you should not use salt in the water

I would skip the salt and start to do daily water changes 20-30% and keep water as clean as possible so he can heal.. Sorry I'm not much help but sure someone with be around to help soon

 

I would skip the salt and start to do daily water changes 20-30% and keep water as clean as possible so he can heal.. Sorry I'm not much help but sure someone with be around to help soon

Thanks so much! Yes it was KuhlI loaches I was concerned about with the salt. I’ll keeo up with water changes but might just buy a small hospital tank for him in the mean time if it doesn’t improve. Thanks for your reply!

 

That would be the best thing to do...

 

If your 'albino cities' are autocorrected albino cories , they don't like the salt either... they're scaleless fish too.

 

Yep definitely can’t use aq salt with scaleless fish. However your hospital tank idea sounds like a good one. Just keep your water in pristine condition. Fins will usually regenerate on their own as long as there is no infection. The aq salt just helps to speed the process up and help keep infections away. You can also try Kordon fish protector as I’ve heard people using that with success even though it has water conditioning properties. Again, Check the ingredients though to make sure it’s suitable for the rest of your tankmates