Questions for people who have a leopard wrasse.

trilinearmipmap · #1 10/21/2005, 11:33 AM

I hope to get a leopard wrasse for my 120 in the next month or so.

I have some questions about the feeding.

1. How long did it take to get your leopard wrasse to eat frozen food?

2. Will it eat prepared (dried or flake) food after it gets used to it?

3. How deep of a sand bed do you have for it to sleep in?

pcbaseball · #2 10/21/2005, 12:51 PM

hey, i have a blue star in a 300g with a 3 inch sandbed. It took a while to get him to eat, at first he wouldn;t eat frozen so i tried live brine and he went crazy over that. After a week of the live i went to the frozen mysis and he doing great. Just make sure you healthy fish and if possible pick one that's tank at the store has sand, it makes less stressful on the fish

trilinearmipmap · #3 10/21/2005, 06:58 PM

Thanks.

Sigmund · #4 10/21/2005, 07:11 PM

I have had a blue star leopard wrasse for about 6 months. If possible (if you are getting it from a LFS) check to see that it is eating and is out in the open during day hours. Since they do bury themselves at night, and they come from the other side of the world, sometime's their biological clock is not in-line with that of your local time. Sometimes this is why people have trouble feeding them at first, because they are sleeping in the day, and awake at night.

I never had a trouble with mine it readily eats shrimp, mysis, and combo frozen foods. Has been healthy, and although bigger, shows no aggression to my possum wrasse.

trilinearmipmap · #5 10/21/2005, 08:50 PM

Thanks.

Which of the different kinds of leopard wrasse are the most attractive? I live far from the big city so I don't have the option of looking at my leopard wrasse ahead of time.

CrazyLionfish · #6 10/21/2005, 09:57 PM

I think this is the most attractive http://www.liveaquaria.com/product/p...cfm?pCatId=304 but they are "Expert Only" on that website, so I hope your an expert

Energy · #7 10/22/2005, 01:21 AM

Leopard wrasses in general are a tough fish to keep. The initial trouble starts at the time of aquisition. Many of the wrasses will eat live food only and by the time they get to you they may be sop stressed out that once they go into the tank you'll never see them again. Another drawback to the leopards is many come with internal parasites which they can live with in the wild but the shipping process weakens them enough to succomb. I have three leopards now and only one eats frozen and flake. The other two refuse to accept any prepared food and eat only the live food they find. Leopards are by far my persoanl favorite but a tough fish to keep out of the gate. Once you have a healthy eating specimen they are no harder to keep than any other fish. If you have one shipped from an internet site make sure they place some sand in the bag so the leopard can bury itself. This will greatly ease shipping stress on the fish. Good Luck

trilinearmipmap · #8 10/22/2005, 01:39 AM

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Originally posted by CrazyLionfish
I think this is the most attractive http://www.liveaquaria.com/product/p...cfm?pCatId=304 but they are "Expert Only" on that website, so I hope your an expert

I agree, those ones look gorgeous.

I am not an expert but I have other fish that are supposed to be difficult (Copperband, Mandarin), I guess it depends on the individual specimen whether it eats or not.