Severly Injured Krib!

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Tonight I went to feed my fish in my 30 gallon. I couldnt find my female krib, until I saw her hiding in a bunch of dead leaves. So thinking it was nitrates( waters perfect, just a percaution) I did a water change and she still didnt move. So then I figured somthing was wrong and went to get the net. I stuck the net in the tank and scooped her out and she didnt struggle. So then I put her in my 20 gallon Flat Hexagon with my sick Discus. Then I saw that she has been brutally atttacked and is missing most of her pelvic finns. Also she is breathing very rapidly. She looks like a male krib but just a tad more color and she is very skinny instead of plump for a female. Then I let her sit in there for about 4 hours and she still didnt move, then she started to swim and then stopped and fell on top of a plastic plant and is still holding her up to this very second. So I tried to feed her beefheart, brineshrimp, Flake, Tubifex and she wont eat. I am treating her with maracryn plus. Do you guys know what else is wrong with her? Oh yeh, she is part of a pair and the male was on the opposite side of the tank and is very happy and healthy and swimming around and nowere near his mate. PLEASE HELP!
 
Are you sure its a female? can you get a pic of her for us?
Kribs are forever falling out and beating each other up.
 
I breed kribs and sell them. I think I would know what a female looks like. Plus she has had many succsefull broods. Today I went in my room before school, and she is faceing towards the top of the tank and her mouth is wide open and she is still breathing heavly and wont eat. She is not swimming around much.
 
I just went back to my room and I found her where she was earlier, but she was DEAD!!!!!!!! My favorite krib DEAD :( :( :( :( :( I am very upset. She was the biggest, most beatiful, Graceful, and talented Krib I have ever seen and no other krib can replace the spot she filled in my heart.!
 
It sounded from your post that you werent sure of the sex.

Cichlids are very temperamental and if she wasnt ready to breed and he was then she ran the risk of being killed. If you get another female have her in a seperate tank to begin with and feed her up until shes in a breeding state.
 
I am going to have her in her own 2o ggallon and then I will introduce the male when it is time to breed and then I will take the male out.
 

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