what should i do with my guppies?

Question

i have 2 guppies with 3-4 platis and a guromi and someone eat their tails so they are ugly now and i had them with a gouromi before and they were fine.

Answer 1

The culprit maybe the gourami. So the choice is to remove the injured fish into another bottle or vessel big enough, treat them with some decent medicine for fin damage before finrot occurs(a deadly disease ).
You should give your fishes in tank with many hiding places, providing rocks, driftwood etc & also a lot of plants, in order to protect them from being bullied by others.

Answer 2

I suspect the gourami is the tail-biter. It is usually not recommended to have gouramis with long-finned fish. It may have worked for you once, but that was an exception, not the rule.

Either remove the gourami to a different tank, or put a lot of plants (real or plastic) in to provide hiding places for the smaller fish. Once they are not being picked on, the tails should grow back.

Answer 3

Do not put fish with large tails in a tank with other fish, as the tail moves they get tempted and take a bite out.

Answer 4

Tail biting is not uncommon and the cure is to allow more space or keep with compatible species in a small tank.

Answer 5

A lot of tropical fish fight and don't mix,Next time that you are buying your fish ask in the shop if they are suitable to be put in the tank together..

Answer 6

ok...u give them the blood worm as food..i men cut into small pieces....it will help to grow the tail bettr...not only the tail i mean the whole structure of body

Answer 7

Just water them regularly and occasionaly feed them with miriclegrow or biofeed. Fertilzer may be applied to less successfull areas and pestasides used where increased consuption is present.