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Jmurray17

Aquarium Advice Apprentice
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Jun 14, 2012
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Location
Geelong, Vic, Australia
Hi everyone, only just joined and have only had my tank for a couple of months so sorry if anything is unclear as I'm new to the Aquaria hobby :) I have had my tank up and running ( after 8 week cycle) for 2 months now and everything has been a wonderful first experience up until yesterday! My poor bristle nose catfish was caught in one of the artificial plants and now has no left fins or tail fin! I have a 70L tank and have now removed all artificial plants and replaced with some thin veil (I think :S) went to the LFS and they said to add 2grams of rock salt which I have done but thought why not ask the real experts! Is he going to be okay ( he seems happy and back to normal albeit a tad wonky!) and will he grow his fins back even if the tail is completely gone? is there anything else I can do apart from water changes every 2 days and salt to avoid infection?
Incase this helps he is only about an inch in length and lives happily with 2 dwarf gourami 3 guppies and 10 neons :)

Thanks
 
Yes they are sensitive but 2g in 70L of water is nothing. Lots an lots of clean water should do the trick. If he develops a fuzz, growth or red streaks in his tail let us know ASAP. He will need medication if that happens.
 
Mumma.of.two said:
Yes they are sensitive but 2g in 70L of water is nothing. Lots an lots of clean water should do the trick. If he develops a fuzz, growth or red streaks in his tail let us know ASAP. He will need medication if that happens.

Lol well I don't know metric measurements and I didn't really want to convert them so I just put it out there lol
 
Thank you! I will definitely be monitoring him like a hawk! He was my little pride and joy :) owh, forgot to mention he does have a small scratch down the middle of his head only a millimetre or so long and it doesn't look red or irritated but keeping an eye on that too! Will do lot of water changes and add the 2 grams of salt every second water change and hopefully he pulls through okay :) thank again for the help!
 
paytertot said:
Lol well I don't know metric measurements and I didn't really want to convert them so I just put it out there lol

I'm the same but opposite, I think 70L is just under 20G :S...maybe closer to 15G....
 
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