Will it heal?

[DanG13]

Few questions for you experts. First is my Bifa male or female? Second I bought him about a week ago knowing his fins might night heal but I thought it was worth a shot, do you think they will heal or is the damage to severe? Also what is it worth in this condition (8" eyeballed). here are some pics from my cell phone.

 

[Parachromis57]

As my other posts says I've seen fish come back from way worse. Heck every aggressive fish i have bought online has come in with a tail like that and has recovered in a few days. Stress Coat works wonders for this and if it gets any worse melafix for a couple of days will straighten it right out.

 

[DanG13]

As my other posts says I've seen fish come back from way worse. Heck every aggressive fish i have bought online has come in with a tail like that and has recovered in a few days. Stress Coat works wonders for this and if it gets any worse melafix for a couple of days will straighten it right out.

A couple days that would be awsome! Thanks for the feedback.

 

[Snowflake311]

The tail will get better. Might not be 100% but close to it with clean water and if you can get some vita-chem fish vitamins I am useing these vitamins on my rescues uaru and it is doing wonders to help with hith and split fins.

Good luck.

 

[DanG13]

The tail will get better. Might not be 100% but close to it with clean water and if you can get some vita-chem fish vitamins I am useing these vitamins on my rescues uaru and it is doing wonders to help with hith and split fins.

Good luck.

vita-chem good to know thanks.

 

[Parachromis57]

Also when this happens to my fish or if i receive them this way i cycle the feeding schedule of blood worms then brine shrimp then earth worms. Rinse repeat till its better. Maybe i just have freakish fish or maybe its my water but every time its a SA/CA Cichlid not an african they heal faster then what i think should be possible, but as the previous poster said clean clear water is a must to have it regen fast and all the way.

Just as an example one of my Oscars just got destroyed. He lost about 40% of his side scales on each side and his fins were twice as ragged as the one you have. 4 days of melafix later and he is only missing about 4 to 5 scales on each side and only has one split in his rear fin all the rest has healed completely.

 

[DanG13]

Also when this happens to my fish or if i receive them this way i cycle the feeding schedule of blood worms then brine shrimp then earth worms. Rinse repeat till its better. Maybe i just have freakish fish or maybe its my water but every time its a SA/CA Cichlid not an african they heal faster then what i think should be possible, but as the previous poster said clean clear water is a must to have it regen fast and all the way.

Just as an example one of my Oscars just got destroyed. He lost about 40% of his side scales on each side and his fins were twice as ragged as the one you have. 4 days of melafix later and he is only missing about 4 to 5 scales on each side and only has one split in his rear fin all the rest has healed completely.

I already do a 30-40% water change evry 4 days on all my tanks. One question though, did you isolate your Oscar while treating him with melafix or did you just add the the tank he was in?

 

[mike1987]

keep us updated

 

[DanG13]

of course ^^^

 

[Parachromis57]

I left him in the same tank he got beat to hell in. Just dosed the whole tank with melafix(buy online or this is expensive to do) Its pretty amazing stuff. I'd recommend it to anyone with this problem and its an all natural solution not some laboratory chemical. Makes me feel better about using it.