Leopard Wrasse Primer

[Pylos]

Thank you iamwrasseman and all the contributors of this thread.

I've slowly setup a 65 gallon around leopards and have found this thread very useful.

After many months and balancing, here is my M. bipartitus. She is amazing to watch forage and is very intelligent. She was acclimated and then dropped directly into the main display while being gut fed meds for worms.

She is so bold that she eats right out of my hand.

My favorite fish by leaps and bounds.

Here she is in all her glory:

She's going for it:

She took the bait!

 

[iamwrasseman]

awesome pictures ,and eating right out of your hand ! wow thats cool to see ! i must admit that there are many that have contributed to this tread i also thank them for their information and passed on knowledge on these difficult species . there are by far the cooles ,prettiest and most diverse group of fish that one could possably house in an aqiarium .
thanks again Dave

 

[Pylos]

Forgot to mention that she eats everything I put in the tank. Flake, pellets, mysis, prawn eggs.

In the photo there she was eating dry flake out of my hand, which seems to be one of her favorites.

 

[Western_reefer]

Are there any kind of species of Leopard Wrasse that will do fine in a 28 gallon HQI Nano cube with a 30 gallon sump? The 28 gallon has an open rock structure, a few inches of sand, and plenty of caves/hiding spots in the rockwork. Tank was set up for 1+ years. His tank mates would be a Halichoeres melanurus. Thanks in advance!!

 

[iamwrasseman]

personaly i would think that any leopard wrasse will do fine in your tank .just atay away from the choati leopard as they are very ,very difficult .

 

[Western_reefer]

personaly i would think that any leopard wrasse will do fine in your tank .just atay away from the choati leopard as they are very ,very difficult .

Awesome!! There is a LFS that had a Leopard Wrasse for $30 and it eats! It was like 3 inches or so, maybe bigger. Might go down there and pick it up!

 

[BrokenSpoke]

I've been re-reading this thread, I'm back up to page 25, as I get ready to make the jump. One item I must have missed the first time through, and I haven't found a refernce to it yet, is how do the leopard wrasses do with cleaner shrimp, coral banded shrimp, and various hermit crabs?

Do they leave them alone or see them as food?

 

[malawinovice]

Leopard Wrasse does fine with crabs and shrimps.
It is really if you get a strong specimen that they will last. As always observe the actions of the fish, if they feed, appear active and curious/hunting the rocks for food.

I tried to rid my tank of flatworms, and the after toxin killed my coral beauty, and a pair of blue/gold damsels.

The leopard wrasse buried for 2 days and is fine 6 months later.

 

[iamwrasseman]

western reefer did you get the wrasse ?
the leopards will leave your snails and crabs alone 99% of the time,should be no problem at all .

 

[Western_reefer]

western reefer did you get the wrasse ?
the leopards will leave your snails and crabs alone 99% of the time,should be no problem at all .

No, I called them and they said it got sold yesterday. I was late by a couple of hours.

 

[iamwrasseman]

gotta jump on them opportunities for sure ! early bird gets the worm

 

[Western_reefer]

gotta jump on them opportunities for sure ! early bird gets the worm

Yeah, when I saw the Leopard Wrasse, I was deciding to either get a Halichoeres melanurus or the Leopard Wrasse. I wasn't too sure about the Leopard Wrasse being fine in a 28 gallon, so I got the Halichoeres melanurus instead. There wasn't much of a price difference between the 2. Halichoeres melanurus was $5 more than the Leopard Wrasse.

 

[Jacob D]

Hi Folks.

Apologies if this has already been asked and answered... Should the size of the fish be an important factor in making a decision to purchase or not?

I also noticed that some of the responses here indicated keeping the fish successfully with tank temperatures in the mid 70's. What about keeping them in cooler temps such as 68-70F?

 

[this is me]

Here is my splendid. Currently eating frozen mysis and I'm training it to eat New Line Spectrum pellets. It's eating both but seem to devour the mysis a lot better than the pellets.
It's constantly looking for something to eat though it never peck any of my corals.

 

[Ralph ATL]

Nice pics!!!

 

[Gary Majchrzak]

gotta jump on them opportunities for sure ! early bird gets the worm

hook me up with a "good" choati and I'll help you out with a new (and better) avatar pic.

Sorry I missed the 'scuse meet.

 

[iamwrasseman]

dude, i can get choati's if ya need them !

 

[Western_reefer]

dude, i can get choati's if ya need them !

What makes Macropharyngodon choati very, very hard to keep?

 

[iamwrasseman]

if i only knew i would have jumped that hurdle like it was a grain of salt ! i really wish i knew but heres my 2 cents .
very very delicate shipper ?
internal parasites?
water paramiters ?
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[Western_reefer]

I got a Leopard Wrasse today! the LFS got in a big shipment of fish in. I bought the Wrasse when it just came in from wholesalers while it was still being drip acclimated to their tanks sale tanks. Because it was still being acclimated to their sale tanks, they do a large % off on the fish, sooo, I got my Leopard Wrasse for $14.99! I'll post pictures soon. As soon as I added it into the tank, it dived into the sand.