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
Thanks for the info.

I haven't tried adding any supplements to my foods yet but I probably should as it cant hurt. In the past I have mainly fed my fish Hikari Spirulina Brine Shrimp, Hikari Mysis, and Spectrum Reef Flakes + Pellets and it has kept them healthy.

It's funny to watch the Leopard wonder why the other fish get all exited when I put a little dry food in, but she still wont try any.
 
have been stalking you guys on this thread for quite some time thanks for all the interesting info especially wrasseman. I have a few wrasses also, not great with latin but have a mystery wrasse, a meleagris, a male ornatus(relly cool main part of body a rust and green quilt pattern and his head is the psychodelic(sp) pattern,also a yellowfin fairy wrasse as well as some other fish for them to play with thx again . Grant
 
I purchased three meleagris from a LFS a month ago. I had previously ordered them and was able to pick them up "in the bag" and avoided them being added to the LFS tanks. They were not quarantined, straight into tank after temp acclimation. One died the next day. The other two never hid longer than a day. One started eating H2O life spirulina brine/mysis while the other only ate pods for a week. After that week, I gave them some finely chopped squid and they both ate it with gusto. Since then, both have been eating frozen, along with pods. The top one is the one that didn't make it. My setup is a 60 cube with a cleaner and clown goby, tail-spot blenny, and peppermint shrimp.

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very nice and I'm not here to criticize you but that's a lot of stress put on the fish with all that light .beautiful fish you caught there and i hope they do well for you .
 
For those want to soak their frozen (e.g. PE mysis) try selcon or vitality. If you want to occasionally feed one feeding per day of dry food (I recommend at least two feedings), try NLS pellets.
 
Are leopards a deeper water species like black cap basslets or did you mean during the acclimation? Honestly, I didn't really think about it. :/

I usually feed mine frozen twice a day and they pick at pods the rest of the time. They haven't taken to NLS pellets yet, or cyclop-eeze for that matter.
 
mine eat NLS thera A until they are fat, they lay on the surface sideways begging for them, keep trying.

On a side note my Female turned male and now i have a pair of Males....
 
GSMguy said:
mine eat NLS thera A until they are fat, they lay on the surface sideways begging for them, keep trying.

On a side note my Female turned male and now i have a pair of Males....
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Some of mine eat NLS pellets, but my Choati pair will not touch them. Is Thera A different than normal NLS pellets?
 
I use the Thera A version and they won't touch it yet. I'll try mixing them with some minced squid and see what happens.
 
I don't have any personal experience with that, but I've seen two males mandarins fight and they're some of the most passive fish so I wouldn't reccomend it. So yes, I think they will fight.
 
exactly what fish do you have ? two male wrasses are never a good idea as they are aggressive towards males in competition for females .its in their nature to fight off weaker males ,that's how the strong survive and pass on their genes.
 
SDahmer said:
I don't have any personal experience with that, but I've seen two males mandarins fight and they're some of the most passive fish so I wouldn't reccomend it. So yes, I think they will fight.
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Generally extending from one species to another is not a good idea when offering advice to others. That being said, two males of the SAME species are likely to be aggressive. I have multiple males of different species with no problems.
 
has anyone had a leopard wrasse eat nori? Mine just started out of the blue with my yellow and powderblue tang. It seemed odd that she would eat that at all for me.
 
I bought two m. bipartus at my lfs exactly three weeks ago today. I got one juvinile or female and one male :love2: both abot 3-4 inchs long. They had come in that day and were eating in the store already. They were in a tiny cubicle with no substrate just a ceramic pipe to hide in or around. They were with one other male which I feel was not wise of the store owner. I drip acclimated them over an hour or two and put them staight into the display tank(my quarantine tank was cracked a few months ago). They dove right into the substrate which is crushed coral and sand mix that has been in this tank setup for over ten years. The setup is essentailly a berlin reef 125 with over 250 #s of rock most of which has been in the tank for the full 15 years or so. Anyway the wrasses have made a couple of apperances at night or in the early morning and have taken bites at something in the substare (probobly copes or something) but have not taken any frozen foods. I know they are still alive and in there because I can (as of today) see the males tale through the bottom of the tank and saw the female shift around under the substrate in a totally different spot and there is no other occupant that could have done that. Part of the problem is that when they , especially her< came out before I hade a sunshine psudochromis that had been harassing her-them. I trapped and removed him over a week ago though, but they have not been out really since to see that they are now safe. Needless to say I am concerned about them. I am leaving next week on a vacation also and would really love to see them emerge before I leave. Is there anything I can do to entice them. Before I read not to dig for them I made that mistake once about two weeks ago. I have thousands of what I think are baby turbo snails in the tank. Will and can they eat these. I have no problem with them eating some if that makes them happy. Anyway there are several people on this thread I have tremenous respect for and appriciate any advice I can aquire. Sorry about the lack or brevity. Thanks
 
Well, unfortunately, your prognosis is not good. Quarantine is usually not desirable for this species of fish so there is not problem having put them in your display. However, the initial harassment is very undesirable. It is best NOT to buy these fish if there is any potential harasser in your tank. These fish need a SAND substrate or they will likely damage their mouth. As for food, they will not eat snails, but will eat copepods. Best starter food is PE mysis, although they will ultimately eat NLS pellets.
 
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