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lisa ward
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my fancy goldfish is losing her fins.
« on: March 28, 2010, 03:28:26 PM »
my goldfish is losing some of her fins.she does live with other fish,but i don"t see them fight.she eats and swims around normally.what could this be?
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Nossie
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Re: my fancy goldfish is losing her fins.
« Reply #1 on: March 28, 2010, 03:43:22 PM »
Losing, as in... they are getting torn in the edges?
That's probably "just" fin rot, and there's surely some good medicine for this in your pet shop (:

But if this isn't what you mean, please tell me more!
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Hanna
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Re: my fancy goldfish is losing her fins.
« Reply #2 on: March 29, 2010, 08:04:35 PM »
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this may help you, Lisa.

If it is fin rot, I learned the fins will not grow back. Also please contact your local pet store according to medical treatment possibilities
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Katarine
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Re: my fancy goldfish is losing her fins.
« Reply #3 on: March 29, 2010, 08:57:08 PM »
unfortunately that is so truee... fins dont grow back.. but they do repair themselves! Sonorus tore her fin on a decoration and it healed withhin weeks,. I hope it's not fin rot.. do you have sharp objects in your tank?
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Nossie
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Re: my fancy goldfish is losing her fins.
« Reply #4 on: March 30, 2010, 09:28:06 AM »
As long as most of the membrane is more or less intact but just torn it should grow back and heal without problems! Happened quite recently that a hostile gurami bit the fins to shreds on mom's newest goldfish! (Then she kept the gurami separated for a while) And the fins have healed beautifully by now (:

Unless it's a very severe case, when they might need suture. But that's rather only if (let's take the caudal fin as example) if it's split all the way to the caudal peduncle (:
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