Chaoti wrasse success?

[LobsterOfJustice]

I keep seeing these pop up and I’m super tempted. I’ve successfully kept other leopard species so I’m familiar with that baseline level of care & difficulty. Last I researched a few years ago people were seemingly able to get these Chaoti adjusted only to lose them for no reason later on. Is anyone doing better with these recently? Thinking since we are seeing them more commonly hopefully people are seeing more success, maybe collection or supply chain has improved etc.

 

[Cthulukelele]

Idk that there have been great strides. Every success story I've read has always seemed short-lived. There is an odd outlier, but they do seem to be for some reason harder than other leopards

 

[i cant think]

Idk that there have been great strides. Every success story I've read has always seemed short-lived. There is an odd outlier, but they do seem to be for some reason harder than other leopards

They’re harder than the others due to their place of origin, if you’re in Australia they’re the easiest species but if you’re in the US/UK, those fish are highly jet lagged and when they’re shipped often don’t have the best care - usually not being fed for long periods of time until they hit the LFS. That stress on shipping is often detrimental to the difficulty.

I believe there is the easier side of Cyanide Fishing is now illegal in most of that area - Australia, Japan, Indonesia, Philippines etc.

 

[Bob Weigant]

Ive been threw 4 of them. The longest Ive kept one was just alittle over a month. I wont be trying another one. I wish you all the luck if ya go for it.