LuckyWanderer
Aquarium Advice Regular
Today I brought home a zebra nerite snail. While I was bag acclimating it as well as adding tank water to the bag my betta ned decided to investigate. He got between the bag and the tank wall, got scared and jumped out of his tank and landed on the floor! He started flopping around on the ground which made it extremely hard to pick him up. When I finally got him in my hand he was covered in dirt from the floor. I didn't think washing him off in the sink was good so I just put him back in the tank. He still has some dirt on his slime coat and I guess when he was flopping around on the floor or in my hand he tore a giant rip in his caudal fin. He also might have tears in his pectoral fins but I cant tell because they are tightly clamped. Sometimes he swims around but mostly he rests on the tall plant leafs with his fins tightly clamped. Is he going to get an infection or fin rot from this? Do fish that jump out of tanks survive usually? What should I do to help him, I turned the tank light off. please help!