Blue Star Leopard Wrasse
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, 07-05-2011 at 08:36 PM (4077 Views)
I wanted to announce I have joined the wrasse club for the first time (I have an ever growing affection for wrasses), more specifically the Blue Star Leopard Wrasse (Macropharyngodon bipartitus) club.
The best shot I could get.
On July 1st I got 3 of them from a LFS, www.saltycritter.com. They had received them 2 weeks prior and we had worked out an arrangement so that they would hold them in a tank with a nice sand bed (I made this arrangement based on info I had read. I wanted to give them some time between introductions to new systems to reduce overall stress). The sand bed is vital, as some of you may know, because the Leopard Wrasse sleep and hide in the sand bed.
Since introduction into the tank I have seen 2 of the 3 out and swimming, albeit at separate times. Both of the ones I have seen have been picking at the rocks as well as eating pe mysis, nutramar ova prawn roe, and cyclopezze.
I think I will treat the entire tank with Prazipro, as advised by many wrasse keepers. I do have a question about Prazipro's effect on feather dusters and bristleworms. I have a very large population of bristle worms and I worry about a massive die off and polluting the water from their decay. Has anyone wittnessed the effect of Prazipro on bristleworms?
All 3 of my Blue Star Leopards are currently female.