Leopard Wrasse Primer

Leopard Wrasse Primer

  • Macropharyngodon bipartitus

    Votes: 67 28.4%

  • Macropharyngodon choati

    Votes: 12 5.1%

  • Macropharyngodon geoffroy

    Votes: 24 10.2%

  • Macropharyngodon meleagris

    Votes: 78 33.1%

  • Macropharyngodon negrosensis

    Votes: 29 12.3%

  • Other

    Votes: 26 11.0%
  • Total voters
    236
Nice Franky; did you get it locally?

I've got a meleagris, negrosensis, bipartitus, and geoffroy (I guess I 'd rate them in that order from easiest to hardest), and have been thinking about getting a choati. The most difficult of the lot it seems? tougher than the potters?
 
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Yes I got it from Bobs in Milford. Pretty large male about 3" very fat and healthy looking. I'm just worried since I tried 2 potters with no success hope the choati does not fare the same fate. The potters i lost in one day so far the choati has been alive for 5 so already doing better fingers crossed
 
frankyrivera said:
Yes I got it from Bobs in Milford. Pretty large male about 3" very fat and healthy looking. I'm just worried since I tried 2 potters with no success hope the choati does not fare the same fate. The potters i lost in one day so far the choati has been alive for 5 so already doing better fingers crossed
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Well, good luck! I think so much of success is about getting a healthy one to start with. I'm 1 for 2 with potters. Both from LA, the first one looked good, but paced the glass endlessly and was toast by day 3. Second one was much calmer, and took most offered foods within a few days. Trying a Choati may be next.
 
Potters wrasse

Potters wrasse

About a month ago I was finally able to get a potters shipped to me and arrive alive! It was doing great, eating mysis, brine, and pellets (score!). Well he started pacing the glass up and down nonstop all day about 3 weeks in. My previous experience keeping multiple leopard wrasses told me that a fish was picking on him or usually they do that when you first get them and they die within 48 hours. Well my hippo tang went rogue and started biting almost all the fish in the tank that had blue in them? Well he managed to take a chunk out of my beloved potters and now it looks as though his scales are falling off from some sort of rot. It went from an eighth of an inch to about a half inch over night. The sore or open wound is all white with no discoloration. He is still eating.

He is still swimming but very slow, not normally. He will eat but I dont know if I should put him in the hospital tank and treat or should I let it heal itself like in the wild. Although these fish seem to be very sensitive to acclimation I have found that after the first few weeks they are pretty hardy. I have since taken the hippo out and it is currently awaiting a new home.

I also wonder that because I carbon dose, that the infection? might be exacerbated bc of the excess amount of bacteria in the water?
Wrasse experts please help?
Thanks
jeff
 
I have had quite a lot of experience with leopard wrasses and have concluded (perhaps slow to the game :)) that putting these fish in with aggressive tank mates is not the best path to success. I have a pretty aggressive main display, and have been able to successfully acclimate a meleagris, but my bipart male, though feeding well, gradually wasted away. This was my experience in prior tanks also. Certainly it may be simply that the prazipro treatments were not effective, and internal parasites were to blame, but I am increasingly of the view that these fish really do need a calm tank if they are going to thrive in the long run. Just my 2 cents.
 
yeah I am in the process of upgrading and decided that I want an extremely peaceful tank (180) dedicated to mainly leopard wrasses. Maybe a harem of melagris, I havent decided yet.
He just buried himself and I can see him breathing under the sand. Hopefully he will stay there so he can heal but I cant help but wonder if the excess bacteria in my system from carbon dosing has made the infection speed up?
 
yes harmony does seem to be a key factor for these fish to thrive. only issue in my tank for my two leopards is when my female black clown is in a mood and will go to nip at them when they pass too close to her nem. its funny to watch the wrasses will turn around and square right up to the clown. gladly the clown has no interest beyond that.
 
my ornate was pretty ****ed at something last night think it was the clown again. caught the end of it.
head butted her right back into her nem..lmao..
 
wrasse is doin well! added a geofrryi species as well! the meleagris is kinda picking on him a lil bit. saw him take a bite of brine yesterday *finger crossed*




 
Lol they are notorious for worms parasites etc. So I am aware he eats like a pig and I treated with prazipro which seemed to increase his appetite more so fingers crossed but thanks for the concern
 
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