jbvdhp
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I have three leopard wrasses. Unintentionally.
All three are juvi meleagris. Two pop up during the afternoon when I'm not home, but luckily they get fed cyclops and frozen pods. The third one, pops up in the evening and eats pods and cyclops, mysis at times too.
I haven't dosed prazipro yet as I want them eating well before suppressing their appetite with pp.
However, the wrasse ive seen in the evening is flashing her gill area against the sand. She's done it multiple times when out, and I almost want to convince myself I see an erratic shake every now and then. I'm terrified it's ich, and pray it's just flukes.
They're in qt, remember, so now I'm freakng out as my tank is about to end its fallow period real soon. So the question becomes...
1) should I continue to let them eat more before dosing with pp and then watch them?
2) I've done ttm successfully on two batches of fish, and yes in theory it's easy, but how to perform with leopards? They sleep obviously, and people say don't go digging in the sand for them, so how can this be done... WITH THREE? If I run my fingers in the sand, it freaks them out and then I risk stressing them out and killing them. The wrasses are out at max one hour/day.
The oldest wrasse (by a week), I've had for 2.5-3 weeks, and just recently popped out more. The other two, barely a week.
I can't see any spots on the wrasse for the life of me, and I understand it can live in the gills.
ALSO, the tank is a 7 gallon cube. Technically it needs 0.325 tsp of pp, but I can't get to that level of measurement, either 0.25 or 0.375. So would pp still be effective if I dose at 0.25 vs 0.325? I know wrasses can only handle the recommended dosage.
Pros/experts, PLZ guide me as I feel good these girls are sleeping everyday and eating well too. I don't want to be another statistic to losing leopards, and I also don't want disease in my tank.
This thread must be a hot mess.
All three are juvi meleagris. Two pop up during the afternoon when I'm not home, but luckily they get fed cyclops and frozen pods. The third one, pops up in the evening and eats pods and cyclops, mysis at times too.
I haven't dosed prazipro yet as I want them eating well before suppressing their appetite with pp.
However, the wrasse ive seen in the evening is flashing her gill area against the sand. She's done it multiple times when out, and I almost want to convince myself I see an erratic shake every now and then. I'm terrified it's ich, and pray it's just flukes.
They're in qt, remember, so now I'm freakng out as my tank is about to end its fallow period real soon. So the question becomes...
1) should I continue to let them eat more before dosing with pp and then watch them?
2) I've done ttm successfully on two batches of fish, and yes in theory it's easy, but how to perform with leopards? They sleep obviously, and people say don't go digging in the sand for them, so how can this be done... WITH THREE? If I run my fingers in the sand, it freaks them out and then I risk stressing them out and killing them. The wrasses are out at max one hour/day.
The oldest wrasse (by a week), I've had for 2.5-3 weeks, and just recently popped out more. The other two, barely a week.
I can't see any spots on the wrasse for the life of me, and I understand it can live in the gills.
ALSO, the tank is a 7 gallon cube. Technically it needs 0.325 tsp of pp, but I can't get to that level of measurement, either 0.25 or 0.375. So would pp still be effective if I dose at 0.25 vs 0.325? I know wrasses can only handle the recommended dosage.
Pros/experts, PLZ guide me as I feel good these girls are sleeping everyday and eating well too. I don't want to be another statistic to losing leopards, and I also don't want disease in my tank.
This thread must be a hot mess.
it's a long one, and I've tried to search thru it. 
