Alright, guess it's time for me to get up with this thread.
I have not read the whole thing but I am familiar with leopards and their requirements, needs, and care. I've been thinking about getting a leopard in the back of my mind for a while now.
Here's an awesome leopard story, with a lead in to my new leopard.
I work at a LFS and we had an ornate leopard come in about 6 weeks back. We have a DSB tank for fish that sift sand, bury, etc. We put him in and never saw him again. Got another one in about two weeks after that. He buried in the and didnt come out for two weeks. Then he popped out one day, eating mysis, and has been coming out daily and eating well since. Well, at least thats the story we thought had happened. The other day my buddy went in to work and called me to say there were TWO LEOPARDS swimming around the tank, both eating! So the "second one" that had come out after two weeks was actually probably the first one that came out after a month, and the second one came out after a month also!
So I brought that first guy home a few days ago. Like I said, he spent about a month at the store under sand, then about two weeks at the store coming out at day and eating well. I acclimated him straight to the display. He buried for about an hour or two, but was out and eating by that evening. He is still slightly adjusting to my different lighting cycle from the store, but he's spending most of the day out, and eats any frozen I'm putting in there.
Got my fingers crossed but it seems like I've gotten past the first few obstacles. Wish me luck. I am starting treatment of the display with hyposalinity as I've got some ich spots on a butterfly and tang that I cant seem to otherwise shake (so this is essentially a FOWLR right now). I plan on treating the system with prazipro at some point.
