Do guppy tails grow back?
I have delt plenty with aggresion in cichlids i know there tails grow back, but have never had a guppy with a torn tail.

never realy had a lot to do with guppys ( whispers apart from as live f**d) so i dont know for certain but i would asume that like other fish they will grow back

they can grow back. the main worry is that the tail gets infected, but if the water conditions are ok and the guppy is free from the stress of being attacked it should be ok in time.

treating with methylene blue would help stop infection. u can either treat the tank or the fish. the latter is not easy to do and involves using a q-tips or similar to swab the fish.

good luck.

I took the culprit out and he is awaiting sentencing, so no more attacks, and the tank is healthy i am not worried about infection. I have alway kept cichlids, and there tails always grow back with out any problems but i have never delt with this in livebearers so i figured i would ask.

what ya gonna do make im walk the plank ?

We've had the odd split tail, and they seem to grow out, so I guess the tails are always growing.

It probably has to do with how far down the loss goes. I have a Cory with just a stub for her pectoral fin, as the problem reached the base of the fin before healing.

Well i regret to inform all that the male has passed away, 7.2 ph 0 amm 0 nitrite .10 nitate, so i am chalking it up to stress from the acclimation and then the attack. No the gouramis is in a qt tank till he goes back to the lfs. I should make em walk da plank tho!!!! But i can't hurt any fish just not in me

sorry to hear that billy bones your probably right to put it down to stress as your water stats look very good

yeah the thing is he was one of the tequila sunrise guppies, friggin 5 dollar guppy, i went out yesterday and got one for 99 cents i think this one is all kindsa more pretty! Don't you like how that works, i will try to get some pics up as soon as i learn how to take a picture of a fish that doesn't look like a big blob. I suck at water photography.

I reckon a lot of the Males are just not up to it anyway.

When the kids started out, it took us about 3 Males before we got one that lasted more than a few days.

Even watching the Guppies throughout their whole life, I'm fairly safe in saying, the Females last up to 150% of the lifespan of a Male.

do you think that this could be due to the constant in-line breeding/cross breeding ? or hybridisation of the species to the extent that they have created a problem ?

that is prob the cause, everybody breeds for the colorful males, and we all know what inbreeding does.