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Nightmare thing happened to me over xmas. I have had a pair of pearl gouramis for about 3 years, and last year they moved into a bigger tank along with some slighly more aggressive fish. the size of the tank seemed to do them real good, the male especially, since he went a lovely red colour and got beautifl long fondy filaments on his dorsal and (bottom?) fin.
but then this christams I went up to my girlfriend's house in scotlad, since she'd just got back from prague where she's been studying, and i spent 5 days there. when i got back, my parents had obviously not been feeding the fish, since the male gourami's fronds had all disappeared, and i think it must have been angry, hungry tiger-barbs which got at him. he's still really healthy, but how long is it going to take for the filaments to grow back?
damn my useless family.

If they do, it's probably going to be no less than 6 weeks.. keep an eye on the effected parts so they don't get an infection

About a week after starting my tank up I rescued a harlequin rasbora that got stuck under a rock. he was feeling a bit shy and reclusive for a bit, and some of the other rasboras started to nip his fins. after he got back to normal his fins recovered is just a few weeks, and now I can't even tell which one it was (should be able to, it was one of the two males in there). Also, I have a blue dwarf gourami with a split in his tail, which was there when I got him. over the months it seems to be getting better, but I don't know if it will ever heal up. will be keeping an eye on him, tho and remain hopeful.

the actual main body of the fins is pretty much undamaged, it was just that all the long courtship filaments had been bitten off. It actually looks like they're starting to grow back already after I did a 75% water-change and did a couple of big feeds to make up for parental neglect, so hopefully it won't be too much of a problem.
thanks for help anyway.