Leopard wrasse getting very thin - Page 2

ScubaSteve · #11 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 · #12 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 · #13 07-10-2012, 05:26 AM

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Originally Posted by ScubaSteve

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 · #14 07-10-2012, 06:12 AM

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Originally Posted by reefwars

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 · #15 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 · #16 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

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 · #17 07-10-2012, 11:38 PM

soaked in "welcome"? what exactly is welcome?

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Originally Posted by Skimmer King

I use blood worms soaked in Welcome and never had a problem.

toytech · #18 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 · #19 07-10-2012, 11:57 PM

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Originally Posted by daniella3d

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 · #20 07-11-2012, 12:57 AM

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Originally Posted by Coralgurl

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 !