Leopard Wrasse Primer
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Chaps, any suggestions on how to entice a finicky negrosensis to eat. She is in a tank with lots of live rock and a good population of pods, so good for now, but will need to learn eat at least frozen. Having more trouble with this one than my prior experience with meleagris or bipartitus.
is this one also in your fuge or in qt somewhere. it is much easier to get them eating what you want first separately without competition. depending on the size of the negrosensis you can start with selcon/garlic loaded SA hatchery diet, cyclops, live brine, black worms, etc slowly mixed with anything it's currently eating and like every other time slowly wean it off the live food and move to frozen. the garlic does help entice appetite i find. i used selcon boost with good results on my choati and is good overall for the fish as well.
mr.maroonsalty
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Say they are from a very good source, how much more touchy and "touchy/delicate" compared to what please? I'm ten months on a rather hardy Anthias sp. trio - Stocky, and seven with a hipoplotilus pair.
Not in my display fuge, no, rather in my coral/invert/observation tank that is setup as a full reef. Competition is only from a small naoki wrasse. I have tried the full gambit of my frozen 'arsenal', so may have to get some live brine to try.
CedzAquAddictio
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A little off topic, but I've heard of people having good luck with mandarins eating flatworms, and since they eat all day, and flatworms populate very quickly, it may be a good match if you can get it to work. It will, of course cause some pod competition for your wrasses that are temporarily in that tank...
Oh yeah. For your wrasses: Live brine shrimp and live black worms always produce a good feeding response IME. Of course, live brine are not an extremely healthy food source, so they should only be used to get the fish interested in eating in that environment.
Another good food for finicky eaters is nutramar ova as well.
Best of luck, and keep us posted...
I have just about every kind of frozen known to man in my freezer .... except ova. For whatever reason, I simply cannot find it at any of my LFS. Very frustrating! :mad2:
frankyrivera
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Hard to call it I have a 75 gal with a flame wrasse, a Lubbock's, a carpenter, a leopard, a female Solon wrasse and a Timor wrasse and everything swam practically hand in hand peaceful as ever and then 3 days ago I added a yellow coris wrasse and everybody in the tank went nuts and started beating the crap out of my new yellow coris. Even the clown fish and yellow tang jumped into the fight I felt so bad. I can't take fish out of my tank once they are in so I'm always concerned with new additions. Fortunately it seems as if the beatings have stopped and the yellow coris is now welcome into the community after his gang beating initiation. Unfortunately his tail is almost gone and some scales are missing from one side of his body. Hope he recovers he brings great color to the tank. Sorry for the long story. I guess the point is who knows what reactions will be like and good luck
That's the reason why all new additions belong in an acclimation box... you can observe the reactions off tank mates, and prevent any 'damage'!
frankyrivera
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Not all fish fair well in acclimation boxes specially wrasses that like to burrow in the sand they usually bust their mouths against the walls from erradict constraint swimming so while it may be easier to get them out it's not always 100% safe for the fish inside.
While anything is possible, I've used the box with many types of wrasses including leopards, and they all did fine.
I did not have the leopards spend the night in the box!
Just a quick update .... male Bipartitus continues to settle into my main display. Today he was out from about 9 am until 5 pm, and is enthusiastically eating both frozen and pellets (though the latter only once they are rolling along the substrate). Still getting chased a bit, but nothing too bad. Two Bipartitus females remain in the fuge, and the one that disappeared for almost a week is now back to being out regularly. I am still at something of a loss to explain this, other than removal of the male eased a bit of bullying. Both the females are small and will remain in the fuge until they have put on a bit of size.
Female black leopard in my intro tank looks a bit ragged. Picking at the rocks, but not eating any frozen, and fins looking a bit chewed up, so am debating whether to remove her to HT for treatment or not.
Female black leopard in my intro tank looks a bit ragged. Picking at the rocks, but not eating any frozen, and fins looking a bit chewed up, so am debating whether to remove her to HT for treatment or not.
triggreef
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I have a female meleagris that took months before finally trying blackworms. She was my first leopard in my display, and after adding 2 more leopards that love blackworms, it still took her about a month to notice them eating and join in with the blackworms. Now 2 out of my 3 eat nls pellets and about everything else that goes into the tank. Also have a bipartitus that is stubborn about the pellets but eats everything else well.
Live brine always seem to work magic on the stubborn ones. It is enough to get them by for a long time. I've read a lot about this thought of the adult brine being no good is a myth. Although they do lose some nutritional value, right up until they die they are still better than a lot of other foods we offer.
My smallest meleagris survived alone in qt for about 4 months on nothing but live and frozen brine. It just would not take anything else at all. The only reason the qt stay was so long is because just when she was about to go into my display, I had to begin a fallow period on my display, so she got an extra 3 months in isolation.
I'm going to need a box with several soon to be added new additions. So by your post I assume you put them in the box in the morning and then release them after the others have gone to bed?
triggreef
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I'm really crossing my fingers for you. I was really looking forward to seeing how your intro goes after yo get this one to pull through!
Yes, I watch them as much as possible during that day, to see if any other fish are 'interested/bothered', if no problem they are released just before lights out!
MIKE NY
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shouldnt be a problem ..I have both in my tank and they ignore each other, but I would use an acclimation box and follow good advice in the previous posts...
triggreef
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A couple questions for some with multiples... I have 2 meleagris females and one bipartitus female. They have all been together in my 200g DD since it was set up in Oct. and several months prior to that in my previous tank. No issues with any of them at all.
FF to the last couple days, I notice the bipartitus is somewhat reclusive and it has not been before. Yesterday and today I notice my largest meleagris is going after the bipartitus chasing it around everytime they cross paths. Even when I feed this continues. I would think the bipartitus would just dive after she has had enough but she just keeps taking the harrassment.
Not sure what to do with this, I have no way to catch them. Tried traps for other fish before and I know they will never go near a trap. Cant rearange rocks either they are glued. And draining to catch one is not an option for me. Even if I could get one I'm not sure what I would do.
I have a melanuris currently in an attached frag tank, I could add to help confuse or disperse aggression? I was waiting to add an xmas wrasse and a radiant prior to adding the melanuris though.
And I have an ornate leopard doing well in quarantine too I was going to add next week. Thoughts?
Evolved if you see this I'd really like to hear your thoughts on this.
FF to the last couple days, I notice the bipartitus is somewhat reclusive and it has not been before. Yesterday and today I notice my largest meleagris is going after the bipartitus chasing it around everytime they cross paths. Even when I feed this continues. I would think the bipartitus would just dive after she has had enough but she just keeps taking the harrassment.
Not sure what to do with this, I have no way to catch them. Tried traps for other fish before and I know they will never go near a trap. Cant rearange rocks either they are glued. And draining to catch one is not an option for me. Even if I could get one I'm not sure what I would do.
I have a melanuris currently in an attached frag tank, I could add to help confuse or disperse aggression? I was waiting to add an xmas wrasse and a radiant prior to adding the melanuris though.
And I have an ornate leopard doing well in quarantine too I was going to add next week. Thoughts?
Evolved if you see this I'd really like to hear your thoughts on this.
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