Small slit in Sailfin's fin

[Northstar24]

Came home from work and found a slight slit in the top fin of my, that wasn't there last night. He's been in the tank two weeks and there has not been any signs of fighting up to this point. The tang is acting normally and eating like a pig, is the slit in the fin anything to worry about?

I ask because I leave at 4 AM tomorrow for my honeymoon, and if I have to leave special instructions for my babysitter I need to get them together.

Water parameters are all good, and there are the following inhabitants in the tank

1 Yellowtail Damsel
3 Green Chromis
2 Ocellaris clowns
1 Sailfin tang
about 20 snails of various types
1 Coral banded Shrimp, but he lives behind one rock and has yet to come out, been in the tank for about a week.

I dont know how the tang got the slit, but my guess is either the Yellowtail or the CBS. I would imagine that if it were the shrimp, the Chromis and the Damsel would be the first victims because they sleep in the same part of the tank that the CBS lives in, and I've checked the tank at night on several occasions and I swear the tang doesn't sleep - he's always bombing around the tank

 

[Bifferwine]

I wouldn't worry about it. Fish manage to damage their fins sometimes. It won't take long at all to grow back and heal.

 

[Northstar24]

Thanks Biff - is there anything you don't have the answer to? :)

 

[winnie]

Happy honeymoon Northstar! Where are you going?

 

[Northstar24]

Sandals whitehouse in Whitehouse, Jamaica. Sitting in Houston right now waiting for the flight

 

[dcantucson]

Thanks Biff - is there anything you don't have the answer to? :)

Do you really have to ask that? :bounce: