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I have a pair of flame hawks that have been in a ten gallon tank for a couple months now. I planned to move them out and into a quarantine tank before now, but my parents have not let me put the quarantine tank up yet. A few days ago, I noticed the smaller one was hiding and only eating when I put the food down next to it. It’s done this before for a couple days at a time, and it wasn’t a big deal for me to just stick the knife down to the bottom. Yesterday I couldn’t find it though. I cleaned the tank some and looked for it, but I still didn’t find it. When I still didn’t see it today, I removed all the rocks and it swam out from under the last one looking very pale. The bigger one immediately started chasing it. I managed to get the smaller on into an acclimation box where it is sitting now. So my question is, why did the big one suddenly start chasing the smaller one? I’ve had them since the end of the summer and there’s never been anything other than a little fighting over a chunk of food. I obviously can’t keep them in this situation long term, so what do I do now? Will the aggression go away once they are in my 45 gallon tank, or is one of them going to have to go?