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[Guest]

I bought a leopard wrasse from City pets a last week. The next day the thing was gone. I decided to buy a red tail wrasse a few days later and it is doing fine. Next thing I know the leopard wrasse suddenly appears and is swimming around with the red tail. I heard these things burry themselves in the sand. I thought it was dead cause I looked for days. Is this true about Wrasses? Thanks for the info.

Eric

 

[rxonco]

I had a red-tail a while back and it would bury itself in the sand every night. Every once and awile I would have to rake through the sand to find it because I would lose track of it for a couple of days.

I eventually got rid of it because it kept nipping at my GSP's.

 

[Guest]

Oh know!! I saw it doing that the other day!!! with the GSPs!!

 

[HolyBanana]

yes my radiance wrasse does it everyday at the same time to go to bed. They also do it when spooked.

 

[AggieBrandon]

I heard that both the leopard and red-tail wrasses are hard to keep. I guess if you have a good population of pods etc they would be fine.

Brandon

 

[Guest]

oops.

 

[AggieBrandon]

Have you observed either of the two wrasses eating frozen foods such as mysis or brine shrimp? If so that is definitely a good sign.

Brandon

 

[Guest]

Well I never see the Leopard Wrasse, I might have seen the red tail eat some frozen stuff, but that doesnt mean he still wont pick on my GSPs.

 

[AggieBrandon]

once you get your gsp's growing you will be glad he picks on them Eventually the GSP will grow so fast your tank will be full of it.

Brandon

 

[Guest]

Sleeping under the sandbed is what most wrasses do. I had a yellow coris wrasse for pyramid snail control for my clams and like clockwork right before my lighting would turn off for the evening I'd see it make a dive for the sand bed.

I also have heard of a great way for those that have no sand bed for wrasses to sleep in to place a bowl of sand like behind the rocks so they learn they can sleep there.

 

[Cakepro]

Lucky you getting a leopard wrasse!! That fish is high on my wish list. Did City Pets have any others?

I had a fairy wrass of some kind that made his home in a large barnacle shell and would secrete this huge mucus bubble around himself at night. Freaky.

 

[KarenHorn]

I had a fairy wrass of some kind that made his home in a large barnacle shell and would secrete this huge mucus bubble around himself at night. Freaky.

Our Hawaiian Flame wrasse does that. It is pretty weird.

 

[Guest]

If they like GSP's, I could feed a school of them...
I bought a GSP frag about 1.5 years ago, now they are just everywhere...
Looks awesome under just actinics though.

 

[Guest]

They had a couple more leopards, one dead. Maybe not a good sign. It has been over a week now and I havent seen my leopard. I see the red tail though, picking on everything. Neat fish.

 

[Guest]

Red tail Wrasse is dead. Not sure what is going on in that tank. Need to check the water quality- I know its not bad. I have a feeling the leopard wrasse also died somewhere. The red tail was always picking on the rocks so I am assuming he was eating ok. I had a black percula in there to and it also died. The rest of my fish in there are fine, but these deaths in the past week are awefully suspicious.

Eric

 

[Guest]

Any signs of being eaten on it?

 

[Guest]

I bought Leopard wrasse last thursday and put in the main tank on friday and never seen it since.

 

[Guest]

Narkon, no signs of anyone picking on these fish at all. I kinda left it in there to see if all my snails I bought on ebay would have a feast, will have to take it out soon though- they are too lazy. Long, I think maybe they got a bad shipment in or something cause that is strange that 2 of us bought a leopard and only saw it the first day. I am just trying to figure out what is killing all my fish. No signs of picking or anything. I am assuming if my water qualities were bad then they all would be croaking. Who knows.

Eric