Betta Fins, How Long Do They Take To Grow Back?

[Notorious]

A LFS had some nice HM's, but a few had nasty chunks missing outta their fins.

On average, for a young adult fish how long do they take to grow back?

Also when it does grow back are they as good as new or can u see flaws/damage in them where the chunks were missing at some point?

[Aleisha18]

Buy some Betta fix its an antibacterial treatment and will help heal their fins, i've found there fins only take about three weeks to a month to heal and they look good as new no scarring or anything. Aleisha

[splendidbetta]

Unless the fins are infected, clean warm water will be just fine for regrowing fins.

Bettafix is a weak concentration of melafix, which is much more effective but should not be used for serious infections.

[Chuckie]

sometimes they'll grow back 'wrong' - but if you're planning to breed them, that's not an issue (odds are they'll end up damaged in a spawn tank anyway).

[najrick]

I have found that with HM's the fins never grow back "as good as new".

They will always show a lit bit of odd branching or discolouration.

Also it's very hard to keep a HM as a true HM much pass a couple of months. Their fins get damaged very easily.

[Bettarazzi]

Agree with Lilli and Najrick. Past a certain age, damaged fins on a halfmoon won't grow back at all. Even on young fish the damage has to be pretty mild for it to grow back properly.