Help Hurt Pink Convict

[fish-r-fancy]

Hi 1 of my pink convicts just got in very bad fight with my jewel chichlid! Now my pink convict is not swimming and is always sitting in the bottom in the corner of my tank. He's breathing heavy, not swimming around, he has what appears to be bloody scars on his stomach and ragged bottom fins. I just put salt in the tank and was thinking about moving him to a spare 10 gallon that I have ao that I could keep a closer eye on him. Should I raise the tempature or is there anything else that I could do? Thank you.

 

[Tolak]

Move him to the 10 gallon, and treat with melafix & daily water changes. I've saved some really mauled angels with water changes alone, 50% daily for the first week.

 

[fish-r-fancy]

Thank you for the reply but he has alreay passed away

 

[Tolak]

Sorry to hear about that. If you plan on getting another cichlid, get a divider along with it. I have plenty of home made ones, angels get nasty at times.

 

[Gatorbait]

I'm sorry to hear about your convict passing away.

Not trying to pile on and you may already know but if your jewel cichlid is what the common name is for the african cichlid, I wouldn't try keeping it with cichlids from South or Central America. They can be very mean fish and are a lot quicker than New World cichlids.

If you have no other choice for now, I'd do as Tolak sggested and get a divider.