Poor fishy

[Lunareclipse]

A few days ago one of my friends gave me a hippo tang that got badly beat up in his tank. One of his fish went Mike Tyson on it and ripped most of it's fins off. It can still swim. It took a few days to come out in my tank but he comes out now more frequently and eats like a pig. Will his fins ever heal and look normal again? His rear fin is half gone, even though he can still swim good without it. Will he ever get his blue color back again too? He is a pale yellow color right now except for the top of him. I hope the fish gets over his fear of other fish. He is terrified of all of my fish right now, although he seems ok with the clownfish.

 

[CoralMeister]

Sad. I think it should recover now that its in a better home.

 

[e.muehlbauer]

The blue color will return, but how its fins recover will depend on how bad the damage is. If they were bitten down to the base, they may not regrow. Above the base, they will. I have a hideous yellow tang. As my maroon clown grew over the years, it became, as maroon clowns are, a bully. Any normal fish would dive into the rocks, and learn to co-exist safely with him, as my flame angle learned in about 30 seconds. Not my yellow tang. It consistently did, and still does, stand up to the clown. So it has virtually no fins. Great yellow color, otherwise very healthy, but really hideous overall. The maroon clown, of course, now looks like a mis-bar. It wasn't always....just a wound from the tang's spine on the stripe healed with the maroon color...no scar, but no stripe. It's now more than twice the size of the tang...but the tang doesn't care. Stupid fish......

 

[Lunareclipse]

The blue color will return, but how its fins recover will depend on how bad the damage is. If they were bitten down to the base, they may not regrow. Above the base, they will. I have a hideous yellow tang. As my maroon clown grew over the years, it became, as maroon clowns are, a bully. Any normal fish would dive into the rocks, and learn to co-exist safely with him, as my flame angle learned in about 30 seconds. Not my yellow tang. It consistently did, and still does, stand up to the clown. So it has virtually no fins. Great yellow color, otherwise very healthy, but really hideous overall. The maroon clown, of course, now looks like a mis-bar. It wasn't always....just a wound from the tang's spine on the stripe healed with the maroon color...no scar, but no stripe. It's now more than twice the size of the tang...but the tang doesn't care. Stupid fish......

The blue color is starting to return. Everyday he looks a little bluer. He has a slight case of ich . I think it was all of the stress of the other tank.

 

[e.muehlbauer]

Well, my maroon clown just died.....after 9 years. Let's see if my stupid tang starts to look better.....

 

[Lunareclipse]

Well, my maroon clown just died.....after 9 years. Let's see if my stupid tang starts to look better.....

I hope he gets to looking better. My tang is turning really blue now, but the ich isn't getting better.