Fin grow back speed?

[qumqats]

I have a 4 or 5 inch clown loach I've had in my Qtank for a while.

I noticed it acting funny a few weeks ago. Upon closer examination I saw that a couple of its fins were partially gone and that its suborbital spines were perminatly extended.

I immediatly moved it to the Qtank and did the proscribed 5 day dosage of Maracyn and Maracyn-Two. This seems to have knocked down whatever infection it had.

Now I want to return it to one of my community tanks. However it can't swim very well with half of its tail fin gone!

How long does it take for fins to re-grow?

[bevans]

I have an albino corydoras aeneas who had extensive fin damage due to being in with some tiger barbs at the store. He/she had only one tiny ray of the dorsal fin left, and the right pectoral was only a nub. The the tail developed tail rot and he/she lost about two thirds of it before I got it under control. My experience with this particular fish was that the tail grew back very swiftly- it was pretty much completely restored within about a month. I didn't know if the dorsal and pectoral would grow back at all, but they started to eventually. It's been about three months. The dorsal started filling in from the back. The first, big dorsal spine seems deformed in some way, so I don't know if it will ever be completely restored. The pectoral fin is finally starting to come back as well, but it's not done yet.

I think the tails just come back in faster. I know there's a vitamin that supposedly helps with this, but I can't recollect what it is.

[fishnose]

My betta and cory suffered the most damage when my skunk loach went on a rampage, the betta lost most of his fins. I put him in a separate 1 gallon tank and the fins regrew into a hard spine, as if his tail had been melted down and recast into a cylendar. He eventually recovered and the fin-horn thing spread out.

The cory had to regrow her entire tail. A thin white membrane, not disease like, kind of like scaffolding, grew about a milimeter ahead of the fin and was then filled in with solid tail. the tail stopped regrowing and is now a little stumpy and uneven, but she doesn't seem to mind. To get to that point, it was about 2 weeks for the betta to finish and a month for the cory.