Shredded tail fins?!?

AGreen1209 wrote:

The moor is acting better today, swimming around a bit. He's been
eating fairly well, too. Hopefully he'll pull through, but will his
tail always be
shredded? Or does that eventually heal?

No experience with goldies in this regard, but my betta males generally
recover from blown out tails in 2 to 4 weeks.

I had one betta male that decided that the female bristlenose pl3co in
his tank was an annoyance. You should have seen it. The betta flaring
and flaring and chasing the poor pl3co (4 or 5 times his size) around.

I could almost read Tula's mind... "Hey boss!?! Could you do something
about that pipsqueak, he's really starting to get on my nerves..."

Anyhow in that instance the betta had flared his tail into little
tatters. It only took a couple weeks to re-grow.

Since that betta also had a taste for eating neon tetras he soon found
himself in solitary. A real psychopath, even amongst bettas.

-D
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"Faced with the choice between changing one's mind and proving
that there is no need to do so, almost everyone gets busy on the
proof." -Galbraith's Law