black leopard wrasse

LOL
there is a couple there if you magnify the image
Steve

 

Sure there are. I'll give that a try.

The black leopard is a really cool fish btw. I don't have any experience with one so i can't really help though.

Good luck with your decision.

 

Steve, have you ever seeded that type of pods in your tank?
Amphipods really took a major toll on my smaller pods... same type you have there. I don't know exactly what the name is for those but they look just like the ones I had all over before the amphipods took over. They're small sized, 2 mils maybe and have a antennae in a "V" form, sometimes they have a little white thing on them, but it comes and goes.. looks like a particle of dust to be honest. I haven't seen many lately in my sump or DT, but my amphipods turned into monster pods, some of them as big as 1 cm long. They freak me out!

 

thank you, its crunch time on Saturday, they have 3 still in the shop
if I take my Cyclopeze with me, and one feeds on that or on something the LFS puts in - then 1 is coming home with me

never seeded Magnus, tank was set up and left with only rock and sand for 8 weeks prior to 1st introduction, so I can only think that these pods where present in the rock and have multiplied quickly with no predators for those initial 8 weeks

Steve

 

Great idea Steve. My leopard wrasse Loves Loves loves! Cyclops. I was able to mix that with some broken up flake food and eventually it eats everything now.

 

not the best images - Wrasse, especially recent introductions are not keen to stay in 1 place at any given time

out and about, checking the rock work already



so now I have the 2 wrasse in my 5ft tank

The yellow, eats Reef Nutrition pellets, cyclopeze, and frozen, so Im going to keep this one chubby ( whilst testing Nitrates and Phosphates weekly ) so he wont compete for the pods I have

Steve

 

That fish looks awesome. Congrats. k+
Btw, what is the yellow one?

 

thanks kss2801
the yellow one is a Canary or yellow or sometimes called bananna wrasse

its latin name is halichoeres chrysus

another reef safe wrasse thats peacefull

Im going Wrasse only in this tank , made my mind up

Steve

 

Nice looking wrasses Steve, good luck on keeping the Yellow from picking off pods, mine is all over the place picking away. It is fat and happy.

 

Very nice steve! Let us know how the feeding goes with it.