Leopard Wrasses - are they insane?

[Reef2Land]

Anyone else have one of these? We barely carry them, but I got one knowing they're extremely hard to keep. I'm just hatching brine shrimp and dumping a bottle of live pods in the aquarium once a week and the thing seems to be fine. My Power Blue Tang taught this thing a lesson the first week it was in the tank, cause as usual the Power Blue runs the rock cave. But now it's two weeks later and they're "friends". It's the ODDEST thing I've ever seen. The Leopard Wrasse wakes up and sticks just it's head out of the sand about 7:00 am in the morning till the Powder Blue comes over and swims by. Then he gets the rest of the way out of bed and they hang out together for the rest of the day. They eat next to each other, share the same space, they even hang out in the rocks together now. I'm wondering if this is normal for anyone that might have a similar pair?

 

[road_runner]

Anyone else have one of these? We barely carry them, but I got one knowing they're extremely hard to keep. I'm just hatching brine shrimp and dumping a bottle of live pods in the aquarium once a week and the thing seems to be fine. My Power Blue Tang taught this thing a lesson the first week it was in the tank, cause as usual the Power Blue runs the rock cave. But now it's two weeks later and they're "friends". It's the ODDEST thing I've ever seen. The Leopard Wrasse wakes up and sticks just it's head out of the sand about 7:00 am in the morning till the Powder Blue comes over and swims by. Then he gets the rest of the way out of bed and they hang out together for the rest of the day. They eat next to each other, share the same space, they even hang out in the rocks together now. I'm wondering if this is normal for anyone that might have a similar pair?

Thay are not that hard. I have kept couppe I'm the past 2 of which turned to Male and changed.
They need crazy steady parameters especially salinity and temperature. And they have to have fine sand so they sleep at night in otherwise they will injure themself

 

[Flippers4pups]

I've heard of others having wrasses that will pair up with other fish and stay close to each other.

My blue star leopard doesn't do this.

 

[Idoc]

That's some crazy, hilarious behavior! Lol I have 2 leopards in quarantine now...finally got them eating frozen food!

 

[ihavecrabs]

Typically bad shippers but mine have been nothing but easy. One of the two that I have eats nori with my powder blue tang and yellow tang. The tangs take turns and the wrasse just pecks away.

 

[Reef2Land]

RIGHT?!?! And I hate saying RIGHT?!?! It's so weird. The Leopard waits for the Tang to rip off chunks of seaweed for her. I guess the Tang just decides to accept them or something. But the Tang will tear a chunk and let it float away for the Wrasse then eat its own.

I'd love for mine to eat frozen food so I can stop with the hatching brine shrimp BS and the bottles of pods. How did you do this, or how long did it take?