Leopard Wrasse Primer

[ento-reefer]

I am sorry to hear about your losses wrasseman. Now you have me getting a little nervous. My choati is still going strong, but I haven't had it as long as you had yours. Did you ever notice any signs of internal parasites? I wonder if a treatment with prazipro might be a good idea. I have heard that it is pretty safe to use in a reef tank.

 

[iamwrasseman]

i would definatly do that if you can , thats the only step that i did not do that i had planned for thease guys and that may be my shortcoming in this instance . they were so energetic and eating so well that i did a stupid thing and skipped the anti parasite treatment .mine are in with corals and i was scared to try the prazipro ,which is just so stupid on my part . boy o boy hindsight is worth so much in this case . i would definatly try to treat them with something like the prazipro . jungle jim makes a food that has anti-parasite stuff in it and i have that and prazipro on my shelf right now ,just didnt use it . i really feel like an idiot because i really had a good plan and strayed a bit from it .not a good thing IMO i have lost two choati leopard wrasses and had a few more tricks that i failed to take so i consider it pretty much my fault at this time .yes they may have died even if i took other steps but i had the stuff on the shelf and it was purchased just for them . kinda disappointed in myself at this point ~
please try to use the prazipro asap because it hit fast whatever it was ,i havent seen the third one in two days either so i am certainly worried that i have failed thease guys and it cost them thier lives .

 

[ento-reefer]

I can understand why you didn't treat them. Mine has been perfect from day 1 also, and I wouldn't have thought about it if you hadn't posted your losses. When a fish is eating well, has good weight, and otherwise normal behavior it is hard to understand how they could go downhill so fast. I think I will go ahead and treat with the prazipro as a precaution. I have it sitting on my shelf just in case I ever needed it.

Thanks for posting, and again I am sorry about your losses.

Ellen

 

[iamwrasseman]

thanks Ellen and my best wishes are with you with your choati and any others that may be affected . its great to hear that your gonna go the little extra to hopefully ensure thier health . mine were fat and i really cant understand what it was that happened .live and learn i guess ,but i really didnt learn to much except how to lose almost a thousand dollars worth of fish in a single month ! i am sure that yours will be just fine especially now that he will get treated ,my hats off to you !

 

[flameangel88]

Wrasseman, Sorry for your losses. It's a dilemma when they looked so good coming out of the bag and you've such a beautiful tank and I would probably done the same on holding off the prazi. Last year I got a 3" Goldflake and 2 small Bluespot angels around the same time and they were eating pretty much right out of the bag and knowing how sensitive they are and I kinda held back on prazi and by the time I did the treatment it was too late. The GF stopped eating to dead in only 3 days.

It's tough to lose such beautiful fish but I think you've the setup to care for them. Don't give up on them in the future and keep up the good work.

 

[iamwrasseman]

thanks for the comments , i guess its time to move on and keep the rest of my wrasses up as i have done in the past .good luck with all youd wrasse endevers !

Dave

 

[gflat65]

Sorry for the loss, iamwrasseman. I get so much hope up when they make it past a month or two, so I bet it's pretty frustrating after they've been doing fine for a while... My bipartitus is starting to ride the glass a lot lately. I hope that's not a sign of things to come...

 

[Ralph ATL]

do you think that maybe the last one in introduced the parasite? is it contagious? any other leopard's having symptoms?

 

[iamwrasseman]

no sighns at all and i really have no idea what the heck they died from they are still fat ! dead but fat no other wrasses have been effected at all . maybe they collect them with drugs that permentally hurt them ? maybe i just missed something but i will say i have 20 other wrasses in the same system and they are all very happy . all water peramiters are really good the only thing that is in anyway bad is there always is a very small amount of nitrate most of the time but thats at 5-10 max almost a guess at that level its so close to undetectable .

 

[GUILLO1]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=14759560#post14759560 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by GUILLO1
looks like my African Leopard found his little home. Here is a picture of the piece of pvc with a 90 degree elbow filled with sand.

I finally caught my fish diving into the sand in the pvc elbow. It seems to be wroking so far. If I see him getting bigger I will put in a bigger pvc elbow. The video is not as clear as I would like but you will like.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F1vhzfLTpbI

 

[iamwrasseman]

that link doesnt work , give it another try !

 

[GUILLO1]

try the link again, it should be working

 

[iamwrasseman]

that was cool i certainly appreciated that one , almost humerous. nice video . how long did you have to sit there for the shot ?

 

[Ralph ATL]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=14856106#post14856106 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by iamwrasseman
no sighns at all and i really have no idea what the heck they died from they are still fat ! dead but fat no other wrasses have been effected at all . maybe they collect them with drugs that permentally hurt them ? maybe i just missed something but i will say i have 20 other wrasses in the same system and they are all very happy . all water peramiters are really good the only thing that is in anyway bad is there always is a very small amount of nitrate most of the time but thats at 5-10 max almost a guess at that level its so close to undetectable .

Day 5, no sign of my fish!

do you have any leopard wrasses right now in your tank that are alive?

 

[iamwrasseman]

oh yes at least seven or so plus a bunch of other wrasses etc.

 

[GUILLO1]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=14857409#post14857409 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by iamwrasseman
that was cool i certainly appreciated that one , almost humerous. nice video . how long did you have to sit there for the shot ?

It didn't take me long to get that video. This fish calls it a night pretty early everyday, as soon as some lights go off he goes into his hole.

 

[Ralph ATL]

Day 8 no sign of MM, and last night at 6pm my very "healthy" & fat biparitus went into sand BEFORE dinner (never happened), and she's not out today. She's up by 10:30 to 11:30 am eastern. It's 1pm.

this sucks!

 

[Ralph ATL]

false alarm on my bipartitus. came out at 1:30 and started eating! Yeah!

still no sign of MM

 

[Ralph ATL]

Well, my bipart did not come out today. I guess this starts the downward spiral. I guessing that the new leopard passed something on? Or does this occasionally happen? This has never happened since day 1!

 

[iamwrasseman]

they will do some pretty weird things in the begining .they seem to have trouble getting switched over to the correct light cycle . i think that its one of the things that hinders their survival rate along with many other conditions. hope he make an appearence soon again for you and straightens out !