Leopard Wrasses?

[AnnaCassandra]

I don't know why everyone always has their knickers in a twist over TTM and claiming if you don't TTM every fish you're introducing doom and total wipeout to your tank. Ich can come in on anything wet, so unless you do a 12 week fishless QT for every coral/snail/crab etc that you put in your system you really can't every be certain you're not introducing ich to your system. Ich is only fatal if it completely overwhelms your fish, which shouldn't happen in a stable system with otherwise healthy well fed fish. That said, I still QT every fish for at least 4 weeks because there are plenty of other diseases that will wipe out your tank, and I treat with prazipro because these fish are prone to internal parasites. I only treat for ich if I see it, 4 weeks is plenty of time for the more fatal diseases to rear their ugly head and hopefully you notice it in time to treat and if you don't then at least you didn't wipe out your entire tank by skipping QT.

I wouldn't add two leopard wrasses of the same species, if one turns male eventually they will try to spawn and if spawning is unsuccessful (which it will be because there's not enough space in any home aquarium) then the other may also turn male because she will have determined there is not a suitable breeding partner and assume the role which will then likely cause aggression issues leading to you having to remove one of them.

I have two Leopard Wrasses, a blue star that I've had over a year that is still female, and a male Kuiters that I got about a month and a half ago and just recently added to the DT. Both have been eating frozen food from the beginning, the blue star eats pellets but I haven't tried feeding pellets to the other one yet.

 

[dbartkow]

I got a Leopard Wrasse about a month ago. Went into my TTM routine with some sand in the plastic tray. After day 4, I used PraziPro. But after 4-5 hours the wrasse was clearly struggling. So quickly put him back into tank 1 (hadn't cleaned it out yet). Next day he looked normal again. But I had to start the TTM all over. Finished that last week, and did another dose of PraziPro without any issues. Moved him into my display a couple days ago and it is doing great! Hides in the sand all evening and night and spend the daytime cruising around.

Not sure why people will put a fish into their display if it is struggling in QT. Clearly it has issues that you are now subjecting your display to. I would rather lose that fish than infect my whole display.

BTW, I have been doing QT with TTM for over 10 years now and haven't seen a single disease in my display over those 10 years. Prior to that is was a constant struggle and cycle of replacing fish.

 

[Joshua I.]

I just got a leopard wrasse and what I did was go to LFS and made sure he was eating and that they had him for awhile if you want to ask your LFS to hold them for you and see if they'll hold them for a few days. Either way I can say my wrasse comes out everyday but only in the morning so I started feeding then and to get him on pellets I put some in while feeding frozen when they see other fish going to eat it they should learn.