Help, my female red devil was beaten pretty bad.

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So this is her with fry and her mateuploadfromtaptalk1391473727760.jpg and I came home from work today to thisuploadfromtaptalk1391473835336.jpg this is her I'm a hospital tank. My question is, do you think she will make it and what should I do to increase her chances of survival. I put melafix and salt so far. Any help is greatly appreciated

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Clean water and salt at 1 teaspoon per 5 gallons of water. Keep the fish calm and quite.
 
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You don't need anything but clean water and everything should heal. Hospital tanks usually mean small tanks to me.
I recommend doing that.

I wouldve just taken the male out and put him in the hospital tank.

I'm pretty sure the female wouldn't have made a meal out of those fry like the male just did or plans on doing.

A lot of clean water. Goodluck

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I meant I *Don't* recommend placing the female in the smaller tank

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Aquanero said:
Clean water and salt at 1 teaspoon per 5 gallons of water. Keep the fish calm and quite.
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Thanks aquanero, you've always been a great help when I have issues such as this. I'm already doing your recommendations. I guess time will tell.

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Your friend should have a divider in case aggressions arising. I own a new pair of F1 Amphilophus Labiatus that I separated with egg crate divider. He now share space very peacefully with my Male Rio Mag Umbriferum. Wow! It suprized me too.
 
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I placed a divider up when I noticed aggression between the male RD. Here are some pictures. He now shares space with WC Rio Mag Umbie. Had to separate his female and two other males. In process of setting up 150 for them. We will find out if the larger tank helps. Only have them in a 75 gallon. They still have some growing to do. Good luck helping your friend.1391484878422.jpg1391484910521.jpg1391484947980.jpg1391484971449.jpg1391484995558.jpg

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CHRISZLASTSTAND said:
I placed a divider up when I noticed aggression between the male RD. Here are some pictures. He now shares space with WC Rio Mag Umbie. Had to separate his female and two other males. In process of setting up 150 for them. We will find out if the larger tank helps. Only have them in a 75 gallon. They still have some growing to do. Good luck helping your friend.View attachment 986428View attachment 986429View attachment 986430View attachment 986431View attachment 986432
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I have egg crate dividers that I usually use but they have a batch of fry and are usually fine with one another when they have fry. They were fine last night when I went to bed. I came home from work today to find her in this condition, and it only looks to be getting worse. :(

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best bet is to leave her in the big tank and take out the male so it doesn't stress her out. It happened to my flowerhorn pair =_= I took out the female for the hopistal tank and she died due to stress. So just take out the male for the hospital tank and leave the female in the show tank so she can heal up.
 
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