well they keep doing it ! selling single choati leopard wrasses on diver's den and yet they chimed in and said that you need a male and four or so females to be successful . hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm i guess every one is susceptible to greed as i questioned them on this directly and they gave me a pretty lame answer .
Dave,
I "chimed in" to try and convey my personal experiences with these incredible fishes, and what has worked well for me personally when caring for this species. What is the “ideal” set up and habitat in my opinion for each species of marine fish, and what can work are two completely different things. There are several people on this forum alone that have successfully maintained a single
Macropharyngodon, including Choat’s Leopards, successfully on a long term basis in reef aquaria with dissimilar species of fish.
Obtaining healthy fishes that have been harvested and handled properly, then conditioning them to offer the best possible examples for sale to hobbyists is not only challenging, but is extremely labor intensive, costly, and time consuming. Obtaining groups of healthy Choat’s Leopard Wrasse is even more challenging.
All of our staff at the Drs. Foster and Smith Aquaculture Coral and Marine Life Facility work dilgently, spending an immense amount of time and effort bringing healthy and conditioned fish to market. This is very costly to execute and run this type of business model, and I can assure you that this is more of a passion, as opposed to being greedy. If greed was in fact the answer, then turning and burring the livestock would be our “Modus operandi “with the Divers Den fishes, and that we DO NOT DO for the benefit of our valued customers.
Regards,
