Thank you for your thoughts naturalart. I do feel that I got extremely lucky with him; when I first posted here I was 99% sure I was gonna lose him, and while I was considering cutting them I had no idea how I'd go about it, or if I'd succeed or accidentally stab him in the eye with my scissor. I'm ...

Also, in reply to DutchFry, I would love to kick everyone else out of his tank until he's healed, but I don't have another suitable tank set up. I do have a 55g that I planned on setting up for the pictus when they get a bit bigger (or when they start eating my neons more often) but I don't have a ...

Also, I did want to treat him with tea tree oil (active ingredient in melafix) but I've read that it can be harmful to labyrinth fish. I was going to put the gourami in my other tank so I could treat the main tank, but that's where I keep the tiger barbs and other a**hole fish that nip fins and ...

Thank you guys for responding, and I'll try to take some pics right now. I did end up cutting them last night, I couldn't watch him freak out anymore. I know how sensitive they are, but they were already mangled and dangling off his face by a thread making it impossible for him to eat or even swim ...

Hello everyone, this is my first post here and I am desperate to save my poor little baby pictus. Some jerk at Walmart sold me four of them saying that they only require 5g and would get along great with my community tank (which is full of neons and other pictus sized snacks). I jumped into ...