Potters wrasse

[Ben Seaver]

Picked up a couple potters wrasse today. Very colorful.

 

[ca1ore]

One of my favorite leopards ..... very challenging though.

 

[Dr. Reef]

where did you buy them? been looking for ever cant find them.

 

[Ben Seaver]

where did you buy them? been looking for ever cant find them.

LFS here in Orlando, they have a few more. Top shelf aquatics

 

[GoldeneyeRet]

Beautiful! Best of luck with them.

 

[saltyhog]

If you can get them eating they can be very hardy. I've had mine a number of years and it eats anything I put in the tank. Frozen blood worms were what got mine started eating in QT.

 

[Bigfish of La.]

This fish is on my wish list, beautiful. Did you skip the QT?

 

[saltyhog]

This fish is on my wish list, beautiful. Did you skip the QT?

I did not. My Potter's was in QT for about 10 weeks as I wanted it fat and comfortable with captivity before going in a tank with a bunch of other boisterous wrasses.

Now

 

[Bigfish of La.]

Great looking fish. My son has a laboute in his RS 525XL and a female divided leopard in QT. I bought my radions and accessories from Top Shelf at MACNA last year in NO. Will have to check them out for fish.

 

[Bigfish of La.]

I just checked Top Shelf website and they don’t list fish, must be local sales only.

 

[Kyl]

I did not. My Potter's was in QT for about 10 weeks as I wanted it fat and comfortable with captivity before going in a tank with a bunch of other boisterous wrasses.

Now

You got some lookers in that tank! Glad your Potters is doing great, love my little Blue star, hope to get more leopards if I can swing the large tank in a year or so.

 

[Makers Marc]

I've been looking for these for a year. Only have seen 3 pop up online in that time. Lucky you.

 

[michael giordano]

It’s always best not to keep wrasses in pairs it usually does not end well as they mature

 

[eatbreakfast]

^However, leopards can work in harems better than other wrasses.

 

[evolved]

It’s always best not to keep wrasses in pairs it usually does not end well as they mature

^However, leopards can work in harems better than other wrasses.

Right; the best chance of it actually working are with this genus.

 

[jda]

I have never had any issues with leopards of the same sex. I had 8 or 9 of them at once in a 240g. They are incredibly easy going, IMO.

 

[tp5056]

Right; the best chance of it actually working are with this genus.

Wait ... forgive my ignorance since I've only got 3 leopards myself (2 potters and 1 green leopard)

Will they be ok or will I need to find another Potters?

 

[evolved]

Wait ... forgive my ignorance since I've only got 3 leopards myself (2 potters and 1 green leopard)

Will they be ok or will I need to find another Potters?

Should be fine. Although I am not sure what species you mean by green leopard.

 

[tp5056]

Should be fine. Although I am not sure what species you mean by green leopard.

Sorry .. that's what my LFS described it as ... it's a Macropharyngodon meleagris

 

[accline]

Glad this thread was started. We have a leopard wrasse we got about a week and half ago. I thought he was dead the first week, then at the end he made an appearance. He hasn’t eaten yet and seems almost, um, blind. He comes out for about two or three hours a day, then goes back under sand. I just added pods today from Algae Barn, love them. He doesn’t seem to even care about the rock at all. Just swims around the edge of the tank. When the obnoxious clowns tried to bully him, he didn’t seem to see it coming or care about when it happened. The aggression has calmed, but I’m still worried he’s not interested in eating at all. Any words of wisdom about these amazingly beautiful fish. All my other wrasse ate frozen immediately, so I’m stumped.