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ScubaSteve 07-10-2012 05:07 AM

I might be missing something here but there is an obvious factor here: the food. You said the previous owner fed pellets but you are feeding frozen. If it ate pellets but is spitting out frozen, feed pellets. It may actively pursue the food more.

My Potters Leopard is fairly ambivalent to most frozen and live foods and will only nibble when there, if at all. But damn it loves pellets. It will out compete my anthias for pellets.

If your other fish are mostly pelagic feeders, you could try making a seafood/pellet mush and smearing it on a small rock, then freezing it. Put it in the tank the next day and the wrasse can pick off pieces as it thaws at its leisure without needing to compete with tank mates. This works well if you don't have many other fish that feed off the live rock.

reefwars 07-10-2012 05:24 AM

i have a bunch of nls pellets if you want to try to see if it likes it:P cyclopeeze is another good idea too:)

Aquattro 07-10-2012 05:26 AM

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Originally Posted by ScubaSteve (Post 729870)
I might be missing something here but there is an obvious factor here: the food. You said the previous owner fed pellets but you are feeding frozen. If it ate pellets but is spitting out frozen, feed pellets. It may actively pursue the food more.

That's the most sensible thing. My Leopard was a pig with pellets and eventually mysis, and aggressively competed with the rest of the tank for food.

ScubaSteve 07-10-2012 06:12 AM

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Originally Posted by reefwars (Post 729877)
i have a bunch of nls pellets if you want to try to see if it likes it:P cyclopeeze is another good idea too:)

I've never had my leopard so much as look at a cyclopeeze, barely even touch baby brine.

Another food I had success with was fish eggs (capelin roe). They, for the most part, aren't pelagic feeders so. They mostly go after stuff on rocks and larger floating particles about 1mm in diameter.

Coralgurl 07-10-2012 01:45 PM

I have pellets which I have dropped in, not on a regular basis tho. If she's out before I leave I will throw some in this morning. I will try all the suggestions to see what works.

I did mixed some cyclopeeze in with the food last night, she was still spitting back out.

The 180 has been going since March this year, not a mature tank, but the 55 has been up for over a year. I don't think I have much time to turn this around so will try a bit of everything.

daniella3d 07-10-2012 11:35 PM

I feed mine with live white worms once a day and she's growing bigger and fatter. She's just a little bably but growing fast on that diet. She was so tiny when I got her, less than one inch and now she's doubled in size at least.

I have mine for 2 months, feeding her once a day during the week and twice a day during weekend. She is doing very well on white worms diet. The live white worms and fish roe are the only things she eats. I tried cyclopeeze, PE mysis and she won't eat that.

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Originally Posted by Coralgurl (Post 729826)
I have the cutest leopard wrasse who is so sweet, but she's getting very thin. The person I got her from fed pellets and I feed frozen, she goes after the food and seems to eat, but I've noticed she spits food back out. I feed plankton and mysis. She's not aggressive when it comes to feeding and hangs out on the sidelines when I feed.

What are some other food options I can try? I've thought about moving her to the other tank but don't want to stress her either as she's so thin, but I think the fish in the other tank would be better mates. Thoughts?


daniella3d 07-10-2012 11:38 PM

soaked in "welcome"? what exactly is welcome?

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Originally Posted by Skimmer King (Post 729853)
I use blood worms soaked in Welcome and never had a problem.


toytech 07-10-2012 11:51 PM

auto correct speak for selcon. They can put a man on the moon but cant invent a phone that dosent screw with you.

Coralgurl 07-10-2012 11:57 PM

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Originally Posted by daniella3d (Post 730092)
I feed mine with live white worms once a day and she's growing bigger and fatter. She's just a little bably but growing fast on that diet. She was so tiny when I got her, less than one inch and now she's doubled in size at least.

I have mine for 2 months, feeding her once a day during the week and twice a day during weekend. She is doing very well on white worms diet. The live white worms and fish roe are the only things she eats. I tried cyclopeeze, PE mysis and she won't eat that.

I'm going to see what I can find now. She wasn't out when I left this morning, but I usually don't see her get up until later in the day.

I think the soaked in "Welcome" is Selcon - gotta love spell check.

Casey8 07-11-2012 12:57 AM

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Originally Posted by Coralgurl (Post 730096)
I'm going to see what I can find now. She wasn't out when I left this morning, but I usually don't see her get up until later in the day.

I think the soaked in "Welcome" is Selcon - gotta love spell check.

Don't waste your money with Selcon. This is the quality of the Selcon after this bottle didn't get moved around for 1 month and the actual "fat" content is 1/10 of the bottle. I felt really ripped off with the quality that I used to believe its "very nutritional" for your fish.
What a joke !
http://i1259.photobucket.com/albums/...y/DSC00260.jpg


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