I am knocking on wood as I type this, and "success" in this hobby can be fleeting. But, I purchased three female blue dot leopard wrasses 2 months ago from LA. One did not survive 2 hours out of the bag (yay, warranty). They went into a 20 gallon QT with existing bio filtration. Used a glass pyrex pie plate filled with fresh fine sand. Held the surviving pair for 2 weeks feeding frozen mysis, to make sure they were happy. They'd burrow in the sand each night, and be back up in the morning looking for food. Slowly started adding pellet, and they ate that too.
Because my personal issue is avoiding velvet, I wanted to make certain. Once they were eating all the time, I SLOWLY ramped up cupramine and held it for 30 days at therapeutic levels (decided against CP based on reported wrasse sensitivity). In the last 7 days of that period, one of the leopards grew listless and wouldn't come out of the sand or eat (the stronger one was also harassing it). I plugged on through and once 30 days were up, I changed water and started carbon. The sickly one perked back up immediately, to about 80% activity. Then held the pair for another observation week with 2x treatments of prazi. They were back to normal eating.
They went into DT 2 weeks ago. So far, the strongest one is a champ, out all the time, eating pellets, frozen, picking at rocks. The weaker one has mostly been hiding (spooked her from the sand yesterday when I was doing maintenance). So the jury is still out on her. But wanted to add this to the dozens of leopard QT stories out there.
Because my personal issue is avoiding velvet, I wanted to make certain. Once they were eating all the time, I SLOWLY ramped up cupramine and held it for 30 days at therapeutic levels (decided against CP based on reported wrasse sensitivity). In the last 7 days of that period, one of the leopards grew listless and wouldn't come out of the sand or eat (the stronger one was also harassing it). I plugged on through and once 30 days were up, I changed water and started carbon. The sickly one perked back up immediately, to about 80% activity. Then held the pair for another observation week with 2x treatments of prazi. They were back to normal eating.
They went into DT 2 weeks ago. So far, the strongest one is a champ, out all the time, eating pellets, frozen, picking at rocks. The weaker one has mostly been hiding (spooked her from the sand yesterday when I was doing maintenance). So the jury is still out on her. But wanted to add this to the dozens of leopard QT stories out there.
