Chiclid addict Posted February 1, 2021 Share Posted February 1, 2021 (edited) Hello all I rescued and angel fish from one of my buddys This is the angel he/she was kept him in a 10 gallon that he touched the top and substrate he/she has a broken top fin I think is there a way I can fix this or is this natural I’ve never seen this in any of my angels Apperently he was kept with chiclids in his 10 gallon at one point? Could this have been from this and him getting attacked Edited February 1, 2021 by Angelfishlover New information 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fish Folk Posted February 1, 2021 Share Posted February 1, 2021 1 hour ago, Angelfishlover said: is there a way I can fix this or is this natural I’ve never seen this in any of my angels Just surmising . . . he's probably going to have a gimpy fin. I've seen lazy dorsals before, but that might have come from being cramped in a 10 gallon for too long. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chiclid addict Posted February 1, 2021 Author Share Posted February 1, 2021 32 minutes ago, Fish Folk said: Just surmising . . . he's probably going to have a gimpy fin. I've seen lazy dorsals before, but that might have come from being cramped in a 10 gallon for too long. Yeah that’s what I though he’s older to supposedly he was supposedly bought in 2018 so he’s 2 witch angels can live much past but idk based on his former care he was also fed flake food before witch I’m not a fan of for angels Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brandy Posted February 1, 2021 Share Posted February 1, 2021 I think he is likely not to recover. No matter, he's pretty anyway. Keep that pic handy and post it when people want to use the inch per gallon rule to justify something outlandish. He was less than 10 inches! 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hobbit Posted February 2, 2021 Share Posted February 2, 2021 Poor angel. I’m glad you can give him a bigger home! 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Levi_Aquatics Posted February 2, 2021 Share Posted February 2, 2021 I have some angels right now that had bad genetics I guess. I bought them from a fish store that had bought them from a local breeder. They are in a 110 and all of their dorsal fins are bent! Any tips for fixing this? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ryan W Posted February 2, 2021 Share Posted February 2, 2021 I’m not an expert by any means but, for what it’s worth, it does look rather healthy over all to me regardless of its previous conditions. Other than it’s dorsal, it’s fins look good. Good color, structure. No rips or holes. As long as it keeps eating and doesn’t have any hidden diseases/parasites or anything I say don’t worry about it. As to fixing it? I honestly don’t think their is anything you can do to fix it and preventing it requires much more knowledge than I have on the subject. Do you know if your friend acquired it with the bent dorsal or did it happen over time under your friends care? I’m not trying to call them out, it’s just handy information to have that may help answer some other questions. The bent dorsal actually makes it look like it’s sporting a killer pompadour. Johnny Bravo style! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FrostiesFishes Posted February 3, 2021 Share Posted February 3, 2021 So this is going to be a hot topic response but I have seen mentioned on angelfish specific resource forums in the past. That if it is genetic and you cut the fin back it will not regrow correctly. But if it is from poor water conditions, or a small tank if you trim the fin it will grow back correctly. Now I’ve never seen this done or know how far back to trim. Nor do I have an opinion on that ethics of this. Just giving you the information. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chiclid addict Posted February 3, 2021 Author Share Posted February 3, 2021 4 hours ago, Ryan W said:Do you know if your friend acquired it with the bent dorsal or did it happen over time under your friends care? I’m not trying to call them out, it’s just handy information to have that may help answer some other questions. I believe that he acquired it with out the bent fin I’m not 100% sure and neither is he Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chiclid addict Posted February 3, 2021 Author Share Posted February 3, 2021 (edited) 3 hours ago, FrostiesFishes said: So this is going to be a hot topic response but I have seen mentioned on angelfish specific resource forums in the past. That if it is genetic and you cut the fin back it will not regrow correctly. But if it is from poor water conditions, or a small tank if you trim the fin it will grow back correctly. Now I’ve never seen this done or know how far back to trim. Nor do I have an opinion on that ethics of this. Just giving you the information. It doesn’t seem to bother him and I don’t fell comfortable trimming his fins so unless there is another way, I haven’t been able to find anything on it he was housed with chiclids so he might have had a fin trimming by the chiclids😭 Witch could’ve caused this Edited February 3, 2021 by Angelfishlover Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BlackLabelCarling Posted February 7, 2021 Share Posted February 7, 2021 It's his lucky fin! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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