Whats it going to take?

[Mcass]

Well I'm afraid that although I did everything I could to save her, momma made her last swim this afternoon

 

[Cichlid-dude]

Any idea why she died?

 

[Mcass]

Not positive. Im leaning towards an over aggressive aurastus. She had her fins slightly messed up that morning and I did see one time the aurastus go after her pretty hard. Once I'd seen that, I'd quarantined her. Several hours later she went. The strange thing though is that she didn't look in bad shape other than lying on her side. She swam fine for awhile. All the other fish in the tank are fine. The aurastus in question, while aggressive, never goes after any one of its tank mates. There are currently 25-30 fish in the tank ranging in size from fry to 7 inches and all are doing incredibly well.

 

[Cichlid-dude]

Sounds like it may have been a stress issue that killed her. Were there any other tank mates bullying her? Ive had females die from males stressing them by always wanting to mate.