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So after some research i bought an ornate leopard wrasse, learned they are terrible shippers, I thought mine was going to die the first night, fairly heaving breathing, laying on her side a bit. I had it in an acclimation box for about 30 minutes, and decided to let it go to the sand, she did. She went crashing down, hitting a rock and getting all scraped up(i assumed). Didn't see her until the next day around 5pm(PST). She looked terrible, scraped up from hitting the rock, her lower fin was missing about 1/8 section in the middle, she wasn't breathing heavy, but also looked like she was playing dead since but she looked so bad my eel put its mouth around her,trying to eat her, she didnt flinch like she gave up, while i was watching and had to push the eel away, as soon as i did that, she up and moved, so weird, which had me think she was playing dead. She would go by rocks and just lay there for a bit on her side, or straight up only to come out every 5-10 minutes for about 1-2 hours until she decided to go back into the sand. During this time i tried to spot feed mysis, no taker.
Day two how she looked as explained above.
Today Day 3, she also came out around 5pm(PST) again so i tried keeping my lights on longer(they start ramping down from 530-6. But instead of just kinda sitting and only sometimes coming out to swin she came out and swam not stop and ate some pods along the way. Tried feeding mysis again, no taker again. Stayed out for about 2 hours again, then went back into the sand. Lights are very blue right now trying to keep it easy on the fish, so sorry about not getting her color.
So my questions are:
1) How does her survivability rate seem?
2) Whats a good way to get her to eat mysis? Just keep trying?
3) How long did yours take to get adjusted to the light schedule and what did you do to help?
4) Anything you wish you new when you first got your wrasse that you know now? Im an open book willing to learn.
Day two how she looked as explained above.
Today Day 3, she also came out around 5pm(PST) again so i tried keeping my lights on longer(they start ramping down from 530-6. But instead of just kinda sitting and only sometimes coming out to swin she came out and swam not stop and ate some pods along the way. Tried feeding mysis again, no taker again. Stayed out for about 2 hours again, then went back into the sand. Lights are very blue right now trying to keep it easy on the fish, so sorry about not getting her color.
So my questions are:
1) How does her survivability rate seem?
2) Whats a good way to get her to eat mysis? Just keep trying?
3) How long did yours take to get adjusted to the light schedule and what did you do to help?
4) Anything you wish you new when you first got your wrasse that you know now? Im an open book willing to learn.