Potter's Wrasse (Macropharyngodon Geffroy)

[pledosophy]

I have just aquired a Potter's wrasse that is a juive. I believe it is a he and he is almost 1 inch long.

I have him in a 20g long that is a new setup, fully cycled but does not have much pod life or growth on the rocks.

The 20g has a 40g sump and between the two tanks there is over 100lbs of lr. I have added 3 pod cultures directly to the tank, two tiger pod 6 oz bottles, and a cutlure from LFS cultures. The wrasse is taking Reed's Artic Pods as food.

I am looking for any tips to help make sure this guy gets to be an adult. I am also looking for any nutritional information you can offer.

I have experience in breeding seahorses, but this is my first reef fish juie i am trying to grow out.

Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thank you very much for your time.

Kevin

 

[pledosophy]

THis is the end of week one. It seems I can not find anyone with experience in the matter.

I have seeded the tank with pods and it seems the wrasse like Artic Pods by Reed's.

Week one down, any ideas for week two?

 

[Kathy55g]

Perhaps you should try the reef fishes forum. I know nothing about this fish. But then, I know nothing.

 

[pledosophy]

I get no responses there as well. I am thinking there is not a lot of experience out there with this fish.

I was hoping since he (I think) is a juie some of you with experience with breeding could give some helpful advice.

I'm doing the best I can.

 

[Majestic71]

I have luck with my black leopard wrasse, real similar to your potters.. It will always hunt for the pods but I would also start to feed mysis shrimp. It took my leopard wrasse a few days but he started to accept the mysis. I have had him now for 4 months and he is getting fat. The potters and leopards are very cool fish but the trick is to get them to also take frozen foods. I soaked food in garlic and vitamins.

Good Luck

 

[pledosophy]

Thank you so much for your help. I have frozen mysis, I will try ASAP. If not I will order live.

I am going to setup a 20g ravity fed fuge as well as my sump refugium next week. Going to stock it with some macro's and a few more pod cultures.

hope all goes well.

Any more advice would be so appreciated.

Thank you for your time.

 

[pledosophy]

Forgot, I'm keeping my tank at 74F to help slow bacteria grwth and hopefully the metabolic rate.

The tank is having a light cycle of 2 four hour periods a day. When the light goes on the fish eats, so this wy he eats Artic pods twice a day.