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I have made the fatal error of keeping small Zebra Danios in with my new, one day old firebelly newts. I went to the store and purchased three firebelly newts for my ten gallon tank. Within four hours of having them home I noticed the smallest one swimming oddly and not using his right side to swim. On further investigation I realized that the little guy had a peice of skin missing from his elbow on that arm. With the size of the bite radius it seems to not be from another newt but from one of the guppy sized fish. Will this heal easily? Must I do anything to help in the healing process? I removed the fish as soon as I noticed it but I want to make sure I can revive the newt back to full health! Thank you for the help!

No one needs to answer to this because on later further investigation I have come to see that the newt must have had more complexities than the one bite. After one night of having them, the smaller newt passed away. The newt seemed to show a few examples of illness by the way it swam and how slow it was with doing everything, compared to the other newts.

I know you don't need a reply but in general newts can heal back entire legs so long as they don't get infected.
Demon

Sorry about your poor little newt
For future reference though, I had a newt who had a huuuuge cut across his face who I couldn't save (it got all infected and sad), but I would reccomend keeping the injured/sick one in a quarantine tank until it is fully healed. I have a flat fishbowl that I've been keeping just in case I need it as a quarantine tank, but you could even use just a little tub (like a margarine tub), so long as the newt can't escape (get a lid).