Would You Scoop Up This Charity Case?

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bingerz

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I passed by my LFS today to see if they had any new stock in and was surprised to see that this Fuelleborni was still there. It's been a month, maybe two since I last there. He's kinda hurt looking and older...that could be why no one's picked him up. When I was trying to take pictures of him...he would hide from me. Soo camera shy! I felt soo sorry for him, I just wanted to bring him home and give him a better life. It was soo pitiful seeing him in there. He's gotta messed up caudal fin, I dunno from what. Anyways...here's what he looks like. I'm like this close to just going back tomorrow and picking him up. One other thing...i don't know exactly the sex of the fish...so i'm calling it 'he'...but he was alone when i first saw him...and alone when i saw him today. the first time i saw him...he looked like he was 'holding'...so i thought female...but when i saw him today...he kinda had that look still? is there something wrong with him? or is he just a SHE? anyways....take a look...should I pick up this charity case? it'll probably have a better home with me than at this LFS. he/she's probably double the size of my present fish....i don't know if the others would 'accept' him easily. I've got 3 fuelleborni (1/2 the size) 2 red zebras, and 5 acei (1/4 the size)

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Video of this Fuelleborni
 
give it a try. take it home and maybe put it in a hospital tank to see if the fins will heal. if you have room and the price is ok go for it.
 
she's about ~4inches i think....the employee at the store offered her to me for 10 bucks. im wondering if i could get it lower. i wish i had a hospital tank. i don't think her fins are going to heal cuz it still looks the same as it did when i last saw her. then again...i've never seen a case like this before, so i dunno. i use the seachem buffers and salts for my water, maybe it might help.

i have one of those guppy breeding mini floater tanks, whatever they're called. i put my female red zebra in there for a while till her fins healed over. my male was tearing her up. i could put her in there...but she's double the size the female red zebra. should i risk putting her in there? she definitely wouldn't be able to spread her fins in there. what should i do if that's the only place i could put her?

i could put her in the tank with the rest of them and monitor how they react and just keep an eye on them.
 
nothing more satisfying to me than saving a fish and bringing it back..or at the very least giving it a great life in comparison
 
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