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Author:  novaris [ Aug 20th, '08, 09:10 ]
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Funny (strange) stuff this fish keeping, one of my trout is missing a tail :( . Im not sure if one of the bigger ones got hungry (I sure wasn't feeding much :? ). Anyway I have taken to spending a few minutes at feed time tossing pellets in front of him, he struggles so hard I just want to make sure he gets food, now some of the others are following him so they can get to the food first :shock:

Does anyone know if fish can grow back tails/fins etc? He has been like this for about 3 weeks now and he is not giving up.
Author:  jessy [ Aug 20th, '08, 09:52 ]
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not giving up is a good sign . I think I have an anemic catfish, that isnt a good swimmer. still kicking along , but just doesn't have any ooomph to him.One of my stelth bomber catfish ( the big ones, has lost a tail side flap, from when I caught him out on the river, but he still gets by. Survival of the fittest :fish:
Author:  gemmell [ Aug 20th, '08, 10:16 ]
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Just watch out, I had a similar experience:

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This is finrot. Bacterial. Make sure none of the other fish have shredded fins etc.
Author:  jessy [ Aug 20th, '08, 10:22 ]
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treatable or not Gemmell?? and how do we do so?? Cause I put a few coy carp into the system, and one had fin rot, the catfish killed him off straight up. :P
Author:  novaris [ Aug 20th, '08, 11:22 ]
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gemmell wrote:
This is finrot. Bacterial. Make sure none of the other fish have shredded fins etc.
I did wonder about finrot, but I dont seem to have any others with problems. Unlike your picture its the whole tail all the way from where the fin starts and its not getting any worse. I did however lose a trout for no known reason not that long after I noticed this one so will keep a watch on them any way (not like I need an excuse)
Author:  twintragics2 [ Aug 20th, '08, 12:11 ]
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split it from the group. Keep it in a 5-10ppt salt solution with a bubbler for air. The tail will be acting as a host for all sorts of nasties that will affect the rest of the fish in time.
Author:  jessy [ Aug 20th, '08, 12:14 ]
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Thanks, just been checking the rest of the fish and a few look suspect
Author:  jessy [ Aug 20th, '08, 12:15 ]
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do they recover???
Author:  novaris [ Aug 20th, '08, 15:50 ]
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twintragics2 wrote:
split it from the group. Keep it in a 5-10ppt salt solution with a bubbler for air. The tail will be acting as a host for all sorts of nasties that will affect the rest of the fish in time.
Seemed like good advice I have setup a 100L isolation tank with venturi & pump water at 6ppt. Will watch to see how he goes :)
Author:  RupertofOZ [ Aug 20th, '08, 15:59 ]
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Ditto to the salt bath.. almost a certainty that a secondary fungal/bacterial infection will set in otherwise... it may recover....
Author:  novaris [ Aug 20th, '08, 18:51 ]
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Hmm, I must be sexist, how do I know if its he or she :?
Author:  gemmell [ Aug 22nd, '08, 16:51 ]
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This gives a fair bit of info on the problem, but not too much in the way of a solution.
http://www.flippersandfins.net/flexibacter.htm
Author:  Outbackozzie [ Aug 22nd, '08, 20:36 ]
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I have had this problem in my quarantine system (due to low water flow/filtration I suspect), get any suspect fish out of the main system, and salt them. It spreads really quickly - even goldfish cop it bad.
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