I know, I know, the title sounds absolutely absurd, but I have context:
earlier today my female banggai cardinalfish was attacked by the male (they were a pair so I am quite confused as to why this occurred, any answers to that would be welcome in the “banggai cardinalfish divorce???” thread please.) and her fins were torn up, it seems like some of the fin ray was exposed or something and now is colonized by cyanobacteria? (It may seem fast but I’ve seen cyanobacteria grow back in less than a day before after cleaning it up so I don’t doubt this) I don’t think anyone has experience with this, but if anyone can tell me if this will cause issues with her healing or not I would like to hear about that. As far as I can tell it is fairly minor and the male didn’t inflict damage besides the tearing of the dorsals and potentially some pectoral damage (I’m working on getting the male into timeout).
Sorry for blue lights, I don’t really want to wait on something like this.
(If it’s too hard to see in the photo, the exposed fin ray, which is white, is covered with a purple film that looks identical to cyanobacteria.)
earlier today my female banggai cardinalfish was attacked by the male (they were a pair so I am quite confused as to why this occurred, any answers to that would be welcome in the “banggai cardinalfish divorce???” thread please.) and her fins were torn up, it seems like some of the fin ray was exposed or something and now is colonized by cyanobacteria? (It may seem fast but I’ve seen cyanobacteria grow back in less than a day before after cleaning it up so I don’t doubt this) I don’t think anyone has experience with this, but if anyone can tell me if this will cause issues with her healing or not I would like to hear about that. As far as I can tell it is fairly minor and the male didn’t inflict damage besides the tearing of the dorsals and potentially some pectoral damage (I’m working on getting the male into timeout).
Sorry for blue lights, I don’t really want to wait on something like this.
(If it’s too hard to see in the photo, the exposed fin ray, which is white, is covered with a purple film that looks identical to cyanobacteria.)