Why can't I quarantine wrasses?

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For what it's worth, the first 2 wrasses, I didn't drip acclimate or match salinity. With the leopard, I was extra careful. I matched salinity. I buy my fishes local. The lfs had gotten him only 2 days prior to me getting him so maybe it was indeed stress.
 

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Leopards are tough period. I wouldn't worry too much about that loss, as mentioned they do not transport well at all.

The melanarus and coris, are pretty hardy as far as wrasses go. I would assume you saw them swimming around at the LFS? Happen to see them eat?

Like I said earlier though, could have been sick to begin with, or stress. Hard to say for sure. Nothing you doing sounds wrong.
 
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So I have an extra 32 gal DT at the moment. Cycled obviously. Corraline algae all over it. Maybe the next wrasse, I put him in this tank for a week or 2? Then take him through TTM? Think dropping him into this tank would be better than a newly set up 10 gal?
 
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Leopards are tough period. I wouldn't worry too much about that loss, as mentioned they do not transport well at all.

The melanarus and coris, are pretty hardy as far as wrasses go. I would assume you saw them swimming around at the LFS? Happen to see them eat?

Like I said earlier though, could have been sick to begin with, or stress. Hard to say for sure. Nothing you doing sounds wrong.
Yes swimming but wasn't paying attention to whether he was eating.
 

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Not a bad idea to be quite honest. Get them fat and happy first. Quite a few people QT this way.

make sure they are eating and are not skinny, then put them through a QT protocol.
 

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Wrasse are tough in QT lost with chemical and lost in TTM but made my last TTM attempt.
 

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