pictus catfish whisker wreck

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freshwaterz

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whats up everyone. i was hopeing that you could help me out with an issue with one of my pictus catfish. one day, two of them got into a lil scuffle, and one of them came out of the ordeal with a bent whisker. this thing was really bent, like if you were to bend a car antenna. anyways, a few days go by i notice that the whisker was missing from the point it was bent. a couple of days after that, i notice that the other was missing at about the same point. now my catfish are only bout 4 inches long, but their whiskers were like 6 inches long, and that to me was what made them sooooo cool. My question to you guys is, will the whiskers grow back to their former glory and is it bad that this happened (is he disorientated or lost his smell)...i dunno. He isnt acting any differently, and he's eating just fine and he doesnt seem stressed out which leads me to beleive he's fine. Im just really concerened about their growing back or not.:confused:
 
it'll pretty much break off and then grow back, depending how far the bend is. if it's bent to close to the nerve ending or bent into the nerve ending, then most likely it will not grow back.
 
probably wil grow back..
 
maybe youshould seperate them to avoid future problems
 
Do you have enough hiding spots? Mine would fight when i only had one big place for them to hide but now there are plenty of place to hide and they dont fight. They even stay together sometimes.
 
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