My new Leopard wrasse

[Tomoko Schum]

Hi y'all,

I got this pretty Leopard wrasse at The Aquarium Shop. I must confess that it was an impulse buy. It was looking so pretty that I could not pass it up. So far it seems to eat only live food. I hope that I can train it to eat prepared food.

Tomoko

 

[PaPa_Johnny]

Beautiful fish, good luck getting it on frozen food. If anyone can I bet you will be able too. Had to scroll back up that is one stunning wrasse.

 

[stephish]

Very nice! that is an absolutely gorgeous fish.

 

[H@rry]

That one is beautiful. I got one from Lucy's a year or so ago and I don't remember it having the red edging on the fins. I do remember that it would sleep late in the morning. It wouldn't come out until the halides came on. One day it just "went missing". I never find any dead fish with all the crabs, starfish, and bristleworms.

 

[Tomoko Schum]

Thank you all for the nice comments.

H@rry - Thank you for letting me know about their habit. I was wondering about that since it does not come out to feed with other fish (in the dark.) I heard that they sleep, buried in the sand.

I rely on my fish to train a new guy to eat pellets. I hope that they can train the wrasse for me.

According to what I read so far, Leopard wrasse is known to slowly starve to death in most but really large aquariums unless it learns to eat prepared food. An article mentioned that live food and frozen food have high water contents and the fish cannot get enough of them to keep them sustained in most cases .

Tomoko

 

[gflat65]

They are beautiful fish. I had one stay in the and for four weeks before it came out, so they can hide for a while before needing to worry. Of course, the one that stayed in that long didn't make it three weeks after it came out (was already starved by the time it started coming out of the sand during the day). The smaller ones did fine, though. If it hasn't been in the store for long keep in mind that it may need time to adjust its schedule (from whatever other part of the world it came from).

I want a pair of bipartitus... Don't worry too much if you can't get it to eat frozen. Mine has been munching for seven or eight months (concept of time is gone...) and still finds plenty. One mysteriously disappeared about a week after adding a pair of sand sifting stars. May be coincidence, may be something more. I also lost my solorensis in the same two day period (had each of them for over six months at the time and both were healthy)...

 

[Tomoko Schum]

I love the look of Macrophargodon bipartitus. They look cuter than M. meleagris to me.

I am glad to hear that your Leopard wrasse has been doing well for that long. I hope mine will live for a long time, too. I can certainly sympathize with them about suffering from a jet lag. It takes me awhile to get over one, too. Luckily my wrasse does not seem to be suffering from one although he was in the LFS for a very short time.

I added some tiggerpods for my wrasse and mandarin gobies. Luckily I have a good tiggerpod culture going right now. I am feeding live bbs and adult brine shrimp mixed with Cyclopeeze, too, just in case. I succeeded recently in getting my baby cardinalfish to eat the mixture of live bbs and Cyclopeeze. I hope my wrasse will go for them, too

Tomoko