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my sister has a gourami and her tank just recovered from ick and now the gourami's whisker things are stubby. do they grow back? if u are reading this, please try to help me with my other threads, even if they already have answers please look at them

What came first? the chicken or the egg? No really.....

They should grow back at least somewhat, maybe not quite as long as they were.

have you kept an eye on your water parameters in that tank?

For animals, the entire universe has been neatly divided into things to (a) mate with, (b) eat, (c) run away from, and (d) rocks. - Terry Pratchett

i dont really know, its my sisters tank

What came first? the chicken or the egg? No really.....

Ich meds typically use methylene blue, and one of the more unfortunate complications of using this med, especially over long exposures or in high dosages can be the fish's circulatory reaction to it, namely retracting and cutting off blood from the extremities. Combined with infection damage where osmotic barriers are broken, some fish not usually susceptible to the worst effects of methylene blue can lose patches of skin, the odd barbel or whisker. In scaleless cats the reaction can be most severe with the fish literally rotting on the bone.

It could simply be that the methyl blue killed the circulation in a damaged and fragile organ like a gourami barbel. Happily though, as long as its not literally pulled from the basal muscle a gourami barbel should grow back with reasonable rapidity. This is the first organ that gets shoved into holes and other fish's faces, and consequently gouramis are well used to losing bits of them in their evolutionary history, and they are designed to be eminently replaceable.

As calla said , it might be worth watching the ol tank hygiene as many of the necrotising finrot bacteria that might have helped cause the issue in the first place are promoted by the presence of organic detritus and less than frequent water changes, but TBH the methyl blue will probably have dropped them to a low level, but take the advantage now and get things really clean.

ok, she lost 4 fish with the ick, 2 cherry barbs(i think they dont have scales), and 1 king tetra, and 1 lemon tetra. And, yes, the treatment was blue but it seemed to help with the ick

What came first? the chicken or the egg? No really.....

Gee, that is a lot of stock.

How long did you wait after seeing the spots before putting the drugs in?

For animals, the entire universe has been neatly divided into things to (a) mate with, (b) eat, (c) run away from, and (d) rocks. - Terry Pratchett