BEWARE! Evolved is evil! NEW WRASSE need ID help, ahem!lol

Travis has some nice ones...

Leopards? It depends on species. With all of them, once they're established in a tank, they're rather hardy. Now getting one to that pont...

One of the hardest things on them is system transitions. This includes being removed from the ocean. This includes removing one from the store. They go through a "shock" period from this (severity depends on species). They can be difficult to get eating.

My general advice: if you find one in good condition (appears healthy, active, no pinched belly, mouth looks fine, etc; nothing obviously wrong) and it's eating, the odds are in your favor. Otherwise, the odds are stacked high against you.

They're also VERY susceptable to flukes, and often come in with them. Prazi will fix this, however, if they haven't been QT'd and/or treated prior to purchase.

 

yeah gotta patch that hole and get me a few more now; Thinking another linespot and leopard. Can't pull the trigger on the labouti yet. Let me keep these 2 alive for a month or so first! lol

 

may have to just go with the same plan then, and get these guys under lock down better.

 

Totally agree with this about leopards. I tried one and it looked real good. Was a female meleagris and actually kept in the fuge and it ate a bit of mysis and I saw it nail some pods. Lights went out that same nigh and never saw it again. That kind of took the wind out of my sail, when it comes to leopards.

Definitely patch that hole and keep with it. Wrasses are definitely some of the coolest fish. Great color and each fish will have its own unique personality. That is my favorite thing about wrasses!!

 

The easier leopards: M. bipartitus (African leopard, Blue Star Leopard), M. meleagris (usually just labeled as "Leopard wrasse")

 

kinda not sold on the leoards, loved the line spot yourec, he was cool. thinking of lining another up

 

The leopards are a really cool. I knew someone that has had great success with them. Just got to be thorough inspecting them when you purchase them. Then when you get them in the tank you really have to baby them. They get pushed around by other fish quite easily in the beginning. I do like the line spot, its a nice fish. Also the Longfin is really cool too!

 

Here, try this one: Drs. Foster and Smith Diver's Den® - Paracheilinus piscilineatus



But really, there's nice examples of any of the common species, if you keep an eye out (I was going to put a link here to a nice Filamented, but it's vanished from DD).

 

LOL gotta love the price tag on that wrasse!!! I'm looking into another species to add to the tank, probably in a few months.

 

ok, just took the dive again, after fixing the little holes in my cover! The LFS had this guy, that they called a carpenter! Pretty sure its not, but he was lively and eating, and in a tank FULL of damsels, do he came home! I'll get a better pic tomorrow, right now he's hiding a bit!

TIA

EDIT one of the main reasons I feel that, which you can't see, is his dorsal fin isn't connected like a carpenters or similar, but more like linespot with the long fins sticking out more!