The whitening and the floppiness I observed with some of my fish when the water parameters were not entirely right. But your case is different because in my case, it would happen over long periods of time and almost never stop. It has started happening to one of his smaller whiskers more beneath ...

Welcome! Damaged/torn off barbels and fins do grow back, most usually in the same shape and form. This happens all the time - it's kind of like a shark or gator losing its teeth and growing new ones. As for the prevention - too many things can be thought of and proposed. Good and right water (for ...

Hi, we have a brown hoplo catfish, Hoplosternum thoracatum. Yesterday, a good section of one of his whiskers was white and floppy, but it actually looked like he had another fish's crap stuck on it. Today, that part is gone and he just has a kind of longer stub with the rest broken off. Has anyone ...