Carpenter wrasse doesn't eat in my tank

[foxngn]

Hi All,

Want to asked, I just got a carpenter wrasse 2 days back.
I saw it ate fish pallet in fish shop, so i bought it back.

Yesterday I fed him with fish pallet, i think it ate.
But just now I drop fish pallet as well, it doesn't touch at all.. ignore totally.

Is this still due to get used to the environment?

I bought another wrasse, but it ate.
Both wrasse i acclimate using drip method for 1 1/2 hour.

 

[snorvich]

Acclimation time is not relevant. What is relevant is the SG of the transport water and the SG of the receiving water. What were they?

 

[CoralNerd]

I understand it's better to keep drip aclimation at 45 minutes and match SG of tank and transport water.

 

[snorvich]

I understand it's better to keep drip aclimation at 45 minutes and match SG of tank and transport water.

15 minutes and match SG.

 

[foxngn]

I didn't really measure the salinity of water from my lfs, but my tank was was measure at 1.025

 

[snorvich]

I didn't really measure the salinity of water from my lfs, but my tank was was measure at 1.025

That is likely the problem. Your LFS may keep their salinity at about 1.017. Going up in SG is much more difficult on the fish. Best practice is to quarantine at the same SG as the LFS.