I wake-up this morning to find one of our guppies tail partly bitten off. I've seen enough of my grand-mother's partly eaten fish as a kid that my first reaction is of course "darn guy at the pet store told me balloon mollies don't eat tails."
So I keep an eye on the little guy and the others when ever I can but nothing all day while thinking i might tell the guy at the store he's an idiot. I test my water after work and see a nitrite spike so while I prepare my water change, I see the poor thing has lost more of it's tail and that it also looks bleached. As i look closer I see a little bit of white on the edges of the bitten off part.
Read, read, read, scroll, scroll, scroll... Fin rot! Ah maaaaan! Call the pet store, closes at 6:00 it's 6:05.
I then decided to do my water change while putting my guppy in a bowl and used see salt (only thing I could find that could help other then medication) and now he's back with his friends since I read it's not contagious and stress related(nitrite) but his poor tail is almost all disintegrated
Anyone know if it'll grow back? Cause he looks a fighter and might make it if i get the medication tomorrow. And I do want to confirm contagious or not?
So I keep an eye on the little guy and the others when ever I can but nothing all day while thinking i might tell the guy at the store he's an idiot. I test my water after work and see a nitrite spike so while I prepare my water change, I see the poor thing has lost more of it's tail and that it also looks bleached. As i look closer I see a little bit of white on the edges of the bitten off part.
Read, read, read, scroll, scroll, scroll... Fin rot! Ah maaaaan! Call the pet store, closes at 6:00 it's 6:05.
I then decided to do my water change while putting my guppy in a bowl and used see salt (only thing I could find that could help other then medication) and now he's back with his friends since I read it's not contagious and stress related(nitrite) but his poor tail is almost all disintegrated
Anyone know if it'll grow back? Cause he looks a fighter and might make it if i get the medication tomorrow. And I do want to confirm contagious or not?