Seeking help/advice regarding 9" Tigrinus with badly destroyed/ missing tail!!

[SirCatfish]

Hello
Thank you in advance for any possible good advice that may be given. I have a 9" tig which I bought at 3" with a completely fully Missing tail. Looked to either have been fun n tail rotted down to the base or chewed down by others before purchase. He eats and grows and behaves fine, and his tail has "grown" but deformed. See picture. I was seeking advice or thoughts on possibly trimming top and bottom of tail base to stimulate new growth. Other idea was to use a fresh sterile scalpel to "shave or scrape" a raw spot at base of tail to possibly stimulate growth. Anyone have experience or knowledge about this? Please help. Anything would be appreciated. Thanks
Mike

 

[SirCatfish]

Pics

 

[Loubard]

Hi Mike,

honestly its pretty hard to see from the pictures what exactly is the situation. If the damage is purely cosmetic it is your call. You can search the forums / internet for experiences with cutting arowana fin / tail procedures, although i am not aware of such an operation on tigs before. Maybe you can try to make another (sharper) picture (try to enable macro mode or increase the distance to the subject).

 

[Chicxulub]

I had to do a fin cutting on a goliath tigerfish once and it provided great results. I can't speak for your fish though, the pics are simply to bad to be able to glean any information from them.

 

[thebiggerthebetter]

All I've ever seen done was done on much, much milder cases. This is barely a tail. It may be moot but this is a specialty knowledge that someone may possess.

 

[thebiggerthebetter]

BTW will you consider updating your thread on your 2'+ capapretum? You'd please many, Mike!