Will my fishes fins heal?

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yeah, just keep the water clean and add some aquarium salt (not table) to prevent infections,...Show more

If its a case of the tail and fins are rubbing on decor in the tank, then they will regrow, but they will never be as perfect as they were before. The ragged edges will smooth over, but what tends to happen, is the tail grows out the damage so the tail and fins will be about a third longer than they were before. Any fin filament based splits will also grow out, but even though they too smooth over, they will always have a slight split. A Comet that I had years ago got severe fin rot, and a guy who worked for a aquatics shop, sedated it slightly, then using a fine razor blade, cut off all the damaged parts, and painted them with Methalyne Blue. This was years ago and I wouldn't suggest it for home treatment, and he was a proffessional, but the comets tail grew back, and at twice the length it was before. After care for her, is to try using soft stemmed real plants, like cambomba, Canadian pondweed, and hairgrass, or possibly Java fern and Java moss. It isn't known for a goldfish to damage itself on real plants, which give and bend more than the plastic ones, which although easier to care for, don't look real enough to me. Decor, would include using a rounded pea gravel of a fine grade, so basically if she can't pick up a piece or two at once, then its too big. Fine gravel sand is better. Its rounded pea gravel but of such a small particle size, that it moves and works like sand. There are plastic coated coloured versions of this as well. For me all fish should be kept as close to nature as possible, and the gordy plastic or brightly coloured castles and stuff don't work. In all my tanks, my fish have a sand or fine gravel bottom, real plants, and then cobbles or flat slate rocks, and large pieces of bogwood or weighted down cork bark. Keeping the water clean and fresh is as always a must but more important now than before because the ragged edges are prone to infection, even after they start to heal. You don't want a secondry infection soon after the fins have started to reform. A suggestion I would make, to aid this recovery, is to add an anti-fungal/finrot remedy to the tank, but not as an actual treatment. Where I live in the pennines of great britain, the water comes from limestone hills with rainwater washing peat into the reservoirs. This means no two buckets of water are ever the same and the ph rises and falls every hour or so. After using a powerful declorinator, I keep my tanks with a tiny background level of anti-fungus, because chlorine, high acidity and high akaline, can cause fungal infections. I add one drop per litre of new water, and my fish have a waterchange of 25% every week. All my fish thrive on this and the more frequent changes, has no effect on them in anyway. Though I do stock the tanks a little more when I'm breeding. Diet for a black more, needs to have a lot of caratenoid in it, otherwise they turn bronze and sometimes gold after a few years due to the natural menalin in the cells, fading with age. I feed mine a basic of one part Hikari Bio Gold for Large Goldfish pellets, with two parts Tetra Gold Medal pellets. This is a mix of two brands which both provide what the other doesn't. The Hikari is Japanese and is used there to grow and bring on show standard goldfish. It has a base food of wheatgerm and shrimp proteins which are both easily digested at low temperatures, and provide bright colours and healthy growth over a controlled period, instead of feeding high proteins and force growing the fish. The Tetra is a caratenoid based colour enhancer and is made again with wheatgerm, and fish. It enhances natural colours in the fish, and is also a growth food. They are fed this mix twice a day and as much as they can eat in a couple of minutes. Any left over, is syphoned off within ten minutes, and I put it in a dish for a Hedgehog who comes to my back door at night. They also get a mixture of frozen bloodworm, daphnia and mysis shrimp, plus crumbled up freeze dried Krill which they love. As a treat and an extra boost of fibre and iron, they get a once a week feed of finely shredded spinach which is scalded with boiling water for a minute to help it break down a little better. For you I suggest as you only have the one fish. Try to move it onto pellets which are easier to feed on, and also can provide more nutrients than flake. Give her a bit of frozen bloodworm once or twice a week, and a little shredded blanched spinach which will provide protein and iron for her fins. Hope this was some help. Feral x...Show more

yes, good quality water will help out alot. so do water changes....Show more

seporate them.they will heal....Show more