How well have the scars on your fish healed?

[FiveGallonSea]

I tend to have some very clumsy tangs that like to stick themselves into rock work that they don't fit in to try to sleep or just while dashing around hit a rock.

Last night my beautiful new Yellow Eye Kole Tang rubbed up against a rock and left a round discolored white spot dead center on the left of his body. Kills me to see especially because I was doing some stuff in the tank and probably caused his frantic move.

How well do these things heal from your experience?

 

[gonzo620]

They heal surprisingly quick. I’ve had minor stuff heal next day.

 

[FiveGallonSea]

They heal surprisingly quick. I’ve had minor stuff heal next day.

What kind of minor stuff for example?

 

[maroun.c]

Most scars even half eaten fins or wounds typically heal.in few days if fish is healthy and wond doesn't get infected. HLLE can leave permanent scares though.

 

[gonzo620]

Fin cuts. Small flesh cuts from other tangs. My Naso once bite at the side of my PBT cause he was blocking the nori. Naso got tired of waiting.

 

[Paul B]

Fish heal very fast because the slime that covers them is living unlike our skin which is dead.

http://www.saltwatersmarts.com/marine-fish-heal-through-slime-3962/

 

[Waters]

I actually had a huge gash in the side of my Green Bird Wrasse that I thought was going to be fatal.....totally disappeared in about a week.