Black Leopard Wrasse!

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Opinion of Black Leopard Wrasse keepers needed.

As you may have know, I had a female Black Leopard in my DT and a male and female Black Leopards in my DT system for the last month or so. All three are doing great. I just too busy to catch them from my QT to place them into DT. Well, it look like it is too late now for the male and I have to re-home him. This AM, I see that the female in DT have started to change to male. I see the start of the male face pattern, and the black edge of the tails. I was able to snapped a quick phone pic of the tail.
Male Black Leopards are beautiful. They are not easy to get use to captivity, but I must re-home my male in QT.
Picture of the female with black on the edge of tail. She/he does start to have facial marking of a male.
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Here is my male in QT
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There are not a lot of information of Black Leopard available with a quick search. However I was able to find an article by Lemon TeaYK with a few lines on Black Leopard. In this article, there are pictures of male and female black Leopard.
The picture of Lemon TeaYK attached below.
I am not sure about this. From observing my Male Black Leopard, he switch from the suppose female to male in the picture below. He looks like the first picture when he is not excited and more like the second when he is excited.
It is possible the Lemon TeaYK is wrong.

Lemon TeaYK pictures
Female Black Leopard
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Male
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My picture of my male
Baseline picture, not excited
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Excited, mirror induced. I find that mirror often induce male coloration of wrasses, near or the same as nuptial coloration.
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She change sex. I did not add the male, afraid I would loose one of them so I sale the pair in QT to my friend.
Here is the only Black Leopard I have in DT now, a male Black Leopard.
4/2019
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Same fish 03/09/2020, nuptial coloration
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I bought a black leopard wrasse from AQ when I had my 55gal set up couple years back. The fish . gradally got used to the lighting and was great...I don't remember what happened to him, I think I went on vacation and he was stuck in his hole. Loved the fish great personality
 
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