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A while back now I rescued a angel from wal mart, well 6 of them 1 lasted.....thing is his fins stay short a friend of mine told me it was the start of fin rot so I medicated him/her with melefix (all the time being in a quarintine tank for at least a month now, 10 Gal) The angel is small yet a bit bigger then dime size (body) could my quarintine tank be the prob??? Is it to small could this angel be showing what they call stunting?? Even at this young age?

Someone help, everything otherwise is fine, I don't wanna have none out of 6, it will break my heart
I also looked through a list of dieases and nothing that I found resembled this fish, because this is the only symptom, its hard to find anything. At least I can't......=)
Angel Eel

If the body is barely over dime size, the tank is certainly large enough for now. While obviously having to fold up fins to fit into a tank would be detrimental to finnage, poor water quality is more of a factor in stunting than tank size per se.

Perhaps you have a standard fin angel (as opposed to a veil tailed) whose finage would naturally be shorter. Fin rot is a possibility, or maybe the fins were cropped short by other fish when housed in overcrowded hatchery or retail conditions. Housed under good water conditions, and not overcrowded, cropped fins regrow fairly quickly, provided they were not nipped nearly off all the way to the body.

I would say that if the fins have gotten shorter than when you bought the fish, there is real cause for concern. If they are the same or a little longer, you are likely ok.

Well it's not a veil tail, and I'd say the fins are very close to being by the body (about a cm) and shes a tad bit bigger then a dime (body), as of now there is only probally only 4 or 5 very small fry and one 2 and a half inch pleco (hes my community pleco you can move him anywhere, even into other tanks with other plecs he likes change or else he gets sick belive it or not)

My water has been fine other then tons of algea on the glass lol thats why damingo is at work. I did break a thermometer in the four days ago would that cause the problem?? I did a 30% water change right after..and two 10% changes since then.

If anyone could figure out whats wrong it would be a great help, shes my only one left I HAVE to keep her alive....

um walmart there worse than petco. it will should be fine but check it carefuly though(for illness)