Will my Firemouth heal?

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Dark Rose

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Here in the last few weeks, apparently my Firemouth is getting the tar beat out of him after lights out. I never see anything but chasing during the day, and its pretty well spread out, everyone chasing everyone else off and on, no serious targeted aggression towards him alone...

If I can get my extra tank set up soon, and put him in for a quarantine/hospital tank (have an extra seeded filter running), will his tail and all grow back?

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What size tank?
 
He's in a 75 gallon right now, as soon as I can get a heater, I could get my 40 breeder up and running as a temporary hospital tank. Wanted to do dry start planting first, but I could hold off on that.

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My female Thor. Ellioti looks exactly the same with the nipped fins.. from being beaten up by the male, and then because I had no choice tossed her in with 2 1" ocellatus in a 15g that took offence... (sadly neither of the ocellatus survived)

She is now in a 180g where she is the largest by far. Hoping she heals soon..
 
Got him in my 40 breeder as a hospital tank today. Used existing media and some water from his original tank.

Added aquarium salt, was planning to wait until tomorrow to add some Melafix, sound like a solid strategy?

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There was a thread, a few months ago, about a firemouth who lost its entire tail from a tankmate. Last update, it grew back like nothing ever happened
 
Though that is not serious damage at the moment, it seems (you don't give tank mate species) maybe the firemouth is not suited for the tank.
Firemouths are much more bluff than bite, compared to many other cichlids species, and one must be careful about what they are housed with. Though the damage is not serious now, it may be a death sentence to keep it in the tank.
 
The tankmates are Africans, and there were no problems for the first several months.

Now I've got another question though...

He's in his own tank now, dosing Melafix, feeding lightly, good light, good water, etc. However, he discovered the driftwood has a hollow at the bottom of it, and he's set up shop in there. As far as I can tell, once he went in there, he hasn't come out. I can see him moving, see the occasional fin movement, so I know he's not dead, but should I be worried? At the moment I'm just leaving him in there, he probably stressed a bit being moved to a new tank, but I also haven't seen him come out to eat either. Didn't feed today because there was still food left from yesterday (NLS cichlid, and Mysis shrimp).

At what point should I be concerned if he doesn't come out?
 
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