Could a fish die the day AFTER a bully is removed?

[gatorcream]

As the title says, I have a tailspot blenny that was being harassed by my starry blenny pretty consistently for about 4 days. I removed the starry blenny yesterday morning, as I noticed the aggression was not calming down. Today, (it’s late afternoon for me) I come home to the tailspot dead could the stress maybe have been too much for him to recover from? Or do you guys think it would’ve been something else? He didn’t have any injuries, just was extremely stressed out.

 

[Timfish]

Sorry to hear your loss. . But, yes, fish with chronic problems caused by stress may not show any apparent issues but die suddenly even after the main siurce of stress is remediated