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
Species of leopard
Potter's Leopard Wrasse (Macropharyngodon geoffroyi)

Source (LFS, online, etc)
LFS

Method of introduction (quarantine, straight-to-tank, etc)
Straight to tank

Tank set up (reef, fowlr, size, age, etc)
Reef but fish dominated. 300 gallon, 2 years old.

How many other attempts, if any, you made to keep a leopard wrasse and thoughts on why this attempt was successful (if applicable)
This was my first attempt at a leopard wrasse. I bought from my LFS the day it arrived (I didn’t want to take the chance of anyone getting it). When I got him into the tank the first thing I did was add some new sand in the front of the tank to give him enough depth to hide/sleep. I initially fed with live brine soaked in selcon then started adding frozen(soaked in selcon) at the same time hoping he would experiment and enjoy the frozen. Well it turned out that he ate the mysis and brine but fell in love with the bloodworms. He also fell in live with spectrum sinking pellets. After a couple of months in the tank he became jealous of watching the other fish get to eat from the Nori Clip and now he is the first fish at the top of the tank when I am putting in the sheets of Nori. I dont think I did anything special other than being lucky enough to get a fish with an appetite and internal parasite free.

If you want I can try to take an updated picture tommorrow.
 
Aghh it wont let me use the
 
nice potters wrasse there ! love it ,i cant find them and i really want one .i see your in rochester so PM me if you ever see one at a LFS please
 
I just got a Potters this past friday. It's about 2 1/2 to 3" long. One of the lfs had two in a tank. I was on the hunt for a leapard in town and this was my last stop. They were $30 a peice and when i asked if it was a leopard they just said it was a Potters Wrasse. Guess they didn't know it was a type of Leopard. Supposedly they had them for a month and they ate mysis. It was freezing outside so I did a slow 3hr drip/temp acclimation and let him go about 15 min before lights out. He didn't do much exploring, just checked out some rocks and looked like he was doing a little hunting while keeping his eyes open for other tankmates. lights out and he went in for the night. Next morning he was up before lights came on, about the time the LFS would open. He ate brine, loved pellets and flake. Went to bed about 6, the time the LFS closes. He's now slowly over the past few days changed his internal clock to match my lights on from 12-11PM. He just went to bed about 15 mins ago so he's doing awesome! He's come out everyday and holds his own with my mean maroon, who i think got a good bite from the leopard. Maroon clown lets the Leopard be now lol. He's eating good and I haven't seen any small snails and I had a billion. just weird no way he could devour that many in my 90 gallon thats been going for 9 mos now. Haven't even seen any parasite snails that were eating my astrea's!! It's only been 4 days. The snails just scared? lol The Potter is doing great, this thread rocks! Ever since I read it I had to have a leopard! Now I'm wanting a second, maybe a bipart. Maybe I should go get the other Potters they had.
 
need some help!

a friend of mine has a huge sps reef tank. He is trying to trade me his 2 Leopard Wrasses that he has, but needs a few suggestion on how to capture them! Please give me a few!
Thanks!
 
the easiest way would be if you can get them to burrow in an area that you can get to then scoop the substrate and fish out with a net .other than that you will need a trap and they are no fun to get to function properly . i built a large one 6"x8" x10"but that is probably to big for his needs .i can ship it to you if its not just let me know you also can get a fly fishing hook #3 and file off the barb and that will usually work well ,it take a few tries cause it doesn't really hook him so you have to pull him out fast and never let the line loosen at all .you will also need the correct line to go with the hook .they are extremely small and you can use a single PE MYSIS shrimp as bait . i have done this a few times without hurting the fish at all .good luck to you !
 
BrianD said:
Please post on this thread if you have had success keeping a leopard wrasse (let's define "success" are kept 1 year or more)

The following information would be helpful (add anything I might have left out):

  • Species of leopard
  • Source (LFS, online, etc)
  • Method of introduction (quarantine, straight-to-tank, etc)
  • Tank set up (reef, fowlr, size, age, etc)
  • How many other attempts, if any, you made to keep a leopard wrasse and thoughts on why this attempt was successful (if applicable)
Click to expand...


* Macropharyngodon bipartitus bipartitus
* LFS
* straight to the tank
* 60g cube Mix Reef
* 1st attempt: it was introduced first in my nano set-up where it will see the mysis straight away when feeding. Use to have BG chromis which starts a feeding frenzy during feeding.

have this guy since 2007
a not so recent pix
IMG_0823-1.jpg


and a recent video:
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A Christmas Miracle...

A Christmas Miracle...

I decided last week I was ready to try leopards again- I still have the first one I purchased, a large male m. bipartitus. The 10 or so I've gotten since have all croaked.

On Wednesday I called an online retailer I use- they said they had gotten around ten female m. bipartitus in on January 8th, and that it looked like a great batch. In quarantine, eating, looking happy. I place an order for four, with Saturday delivery.

Yesterday morning I sat outside my local Fedex hold station waiting patiently for them to open. I got my fish, took them home, opened the box- they all looked lively enough. I drip acclimated them, and in they went. Later that evening, I was thrilled to see that two had re-emerged, and were actively hunting around the tank.

Today I looked in my tank around 3pm, and two had re-emerged. I was thrilled. I fed the tank, and they ate readily. At about 6:30 I looked again, and another had emerged. I looked around the tank, and the fourth was peeking his face out of the sand.

I'm thrilled. My fiance had declared that this would be "our" last leopard wrasse purchase. It's way too early to call it a success, but having fish that aren't dead on day one and are eating is a success compared to the many casualties I've had thus far.
 
Sounds good. Don't be too discouraged about past problems. These are very difficult fish and some times it takes multiple times. There DOES seem to be "good batches" and not so good batches. I don't know if it is a shipping/handling issue or a collection issue.
 
snorvich said:
Sounds good. Don't be too discouraged about past problems. These are very difficult fish and some times it takes multiple times. There DOES seem to be "good batches" and not so good batches. I don't know if it is a shipping/handling issue or a collection issue.
Click to expand...

I suppose that's the million dollar question- what makes the batches good? My new foursome were all out tonight, all eating. What a nice change to the second day deaths that I have experienced. Still much too early to call it success... but at least I can say I fed them.

It has been neat watching them interact with the male, who is at least three times their size. He chases them around a bit, and then they resume hunting- always angled and staring at the live rock. It was REALLY neat to see them grab the big mysis and smash them on the rocks into smaller sizes- never seen that before, my bigger wrasse just gobble them up.
 
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