Help Flounder dying, pics enclosed

[good alex]

I ve had this flounder for about a year and a half and today I noticed that she was upside down trying to flip herself over, I scooped her up and she dident jolt out of my hand as usual, and when i let her go she sorta dropped to the bottom not even swimming, and when she hit the sand she evened her self out, no clue what could be wrong with her.
water parameters
ph 8.2
Nh3 0
No2 0
No3 0
salinity 1.024
These are the only things that i could find wrong with her

This is her underside (somethin's wrong cause she would never let me do this)

 

[good alex]

The water isent that green just the camera
Those white dots are grains of sand not ich or anything
Thanks for any help in advance!!

 

[bellanavis]

Awww, I hope shes is ok, shes cute!!!!!

 

[good alex]

Thanks for the comment and i hope she makes it through this

 

[arkreefer]

Some type of fin rot maybe? Do you have any anemones?

 

[good alex]

No anemones, its a FOWLR tank and heres a list of the other tank mates even though they dont even notice her
1 powder blue tang
1 yellow tang
1 blue angel
1 six line wrasse
1 cleaner wrasse (MIA)
4 percula clowns
3 cleaner shrimp
15+ snails
used to have hermit crabs but took them out because i though they would be the ones that were picking on her fins.
It dosent look like fin rott, sorta closer to harrassment, but like i said no one ever notices her because she camoflauges with the sand, and the only ones that noticed her were the cleaner shrimp when they walked over her and the hermit crabs. Forgot to add that shes in a 150g

 

[beth]

Is the fish eating, and has it been eating?

 

[good alex]

my flounder is basically a scavenger and eats what the others dont, he dosent come up to eat, just gets whats on the bottom. No I havent seen him eat in the last feeding, shes just lying there on the sand, like shes in lala land. Is there a special flounder food that i should be feeding her?

 

[sepulatian]

I don't know of any special food. That is so incredibly sad. I hope she will be OK.

 

[xokarmaxo]

awww.... how absolutely cute she is! I sure hope that she gets to feeling better. Maybe she's just having a bad day and will be back to normal soon.

 

[saltn00b]

arent flounders notoirously hard fish to keep for one reason or another? i thought i remember reading that somewhere how they dont make good inhabitants in regular community tanks, but i cant remember what about them pits them in that category. good luck...
btw are you on the PBMAS site?

 

[lion_crazz]

How big is your blue angel? Have you seen any nipping or picking taking place?

 

[good alex]

Well, she died this afternoon after i came home from school, thanks for your help though.

 

[good alex]

Originally Posted by saltn00b
arent flounders notoirously hard fish to keep for one reason or another? i thought i remember reading that somewhere how they dont make good inhabitants in regular community tanks, but i cant remember what about them pits them in that category. good luck...
btw are you on the PBMAS site?

sorry dont know what PBMAS is can you spell it out for me?

 

[good alex]

Originally Posted by lion_crazz
How big is your blue angel? Have you seen any nipping or picking taking place?

shes about 3 in long and she dosent even notice the flounder.
She died today

found her when i came home from school
dont know what could have killed her in a day and a half when ive had her for well over a year, she was one of my favorites
do you guys think i should try another flounder in the near future?

 

[xokarmaxo]

Originally Posted by Good Alex
She died today

found her when i came home from school
dont know what could have killed her in a day and a half when ive had her for well over a year, she was one of my favorites

I am SO sorry for your loss! She was such a cutie. I wonder what killed her too??

*hugs*

 

[beth]

I would suggest studying up on this fish, and research food needs and captivity needs. It may be that she was not getting enough to eat. What kind of substrate do you have? Is it fine particle sand?

 

[good alex]

Originally Posted by Beth
I would suggest studying up on this fish, and research food needs and captivity needs. It may be that she was not getting enough to eat. What kind of substrate do you have? Is it fine particle sand?

The tank is in fine sand
and by substrate do you mean food?

 

[renogaw]

Originally Posted by Good Alex
The tank is in fine sand
and by substrate do you mean food?

no, substrate is the sand or crushed coral.

 

[good alex]

dont remember the name but it was blue something from the bahamas, yes the sand is very fine, do you think he could have inhaled it when he ate some of the food?
My powder blue tang just poops out the sand that he eats, because sometimes he eats flakes off of the sand and getts a few graines by accident, they always come out looking the same way they went in.