Jag or yellow jacket?

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He does look very nice and such beautiful markings. In your opinion do hard rays grow back? I kept Africans years ago and would have fins regularly ripped clean off and grow back but this fish is the worse I’ve seen for sure.
Hard to say, hard rays don’t usually grow back but since it’s a younger fish, they might grow back some. Soft rays grow back readily
 
...In your opinion do hard rays grow back?

Extremely unlikely. I have seen that even the soft ray fins do not grow back completely perfect if the damage is too extensive.
 
MAN! Them RDs got him good, strange that they ripped his fins like that. I had a RD kill about 4 fish back in the day a Jag, GT and 2 other RDs all around the 8-9in range and they would have no damage to there fins as he would ram there sides and pop there swim bladder.
I agree with Milingu looks to be mixed with maybe jag and Freddy it has swirls under its eye
 
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Sadly I returned the fish today. I felt really bad but I feel it’s a fish that I just can’t accept. If it was my doing I would have seen him to his/her end and done what I can but it was their fault. I came home with two baby jags to bring up. I feel bad but also don’t want a fish that will never recover.
 
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