Kuiter's Leopard Wrasse

hermesfansf · Nov 30, 2012

It is very likely Kuiter's leopard wrasse trio are coming to me next week, super exciting about it. I am setting up a 30 gallon QT with 3 inches of sand bed and lots of live rocks. I would like find out if anyone has experience QT them.

Aquaph8 · Nov 30, 2012

Mine handled QT just fine. I just had a pile of sand in the corner of my QT.

hermesfansf · Nov 30, 2012

What kind of treatment did u give them?

Aquaph8 · Nov 30, 2012

Just observation for that particular fish, I did treat one with quinine sulphate once and lost it.

hermesfansf · Dec 1, 2012

So sorry about your lost...leopard wrasse are tough to keep. I wonder if kuiter leopard wrasse is as sensitive as chaoti. I will definitely deworm them, however I won't treat them with cupramine.

schprock · Dec 1, 2012

Good looking wrasse. I think the key to leopard wrasse is to get a good specimen to start out with. A vendor with direct connection from the collector is best. I have gotten easier to keep leopard wrasses like the African blue star that came from warehouses in LA and they don't last a week. Then I got a pair of choati from another vendor with direct connection to a collector and they are hardier than my damsels. They are now eating flakes and pellets.

Aquaph8 · Dec 1, 2012

The Kuiters is much more hardy than the Choati, yours should do well for you. The hardest part of kuiters wrasses is finding one.

rosko23 · Dec 1, 2012

Aquaph8 said:
The Kuiters is much more hardy than the Choati, yours should do well for you. The hardest part of Choati wrasses is finding one.

i agree... lucky to have a pair that eat like champs.. plus i'm also getting a Kuiters next week.. Leopard's are beautiful fish...

hermesfansf · Dec 1, 2012

rosko23 said:
i agree... lucky to have a pair that eat like champs.. plus i'm also getting a Kuiters next week.. Leopard's are beautiful fish...

Please post a pic of your chaoti pair....

Aquaph8 · Dec 1, 2012

That last sentence was meant to say kuiters not choati, edited sorry. Rosko, what do you keep your temp at with the choati?

hermesfansf · Dec 1, 2012

Yeah, chaoti is a kinda hard to keep. I also have pressed my luck on chaoti. The current one in my tank survives for around 3 months now. It was like riding a roller coaster throughout the entire journey. It took him 3 weeks to be trained to eat pellets,and another 2.5 months to comply the lighting schedule in my tank.

rosko23 · Dec 1, 2012

I will get a pic up today. My tank is at 76 deg.. I just got my newest tank up and transferred all my fish from 2 systems into it... Choatis out swimming like champs!

Aquaph8 · Dec 1, 2012

I talked to Kevin Kohen from LADD at MACNA and he told me not to bother with the Choati wrasse unless I can keep my temps down 76 or lower.

schprock · Dec 1, 2012

Hard to get a pic so I took a video. You can see them better towards the end of the video. I have these guys since may. They initially ate frozen but now eating flakes and pellets. In the video they are eating the dry food. The temp in the tank is 78 in the winter and 82 in the summer. Tank is mainly filled with sps and some zoas on the sandbed.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vDUudQb96WI

hermesfansf · Dec 1, 2012

This is rather off topic. I am realeasing a pair of Japanese masked swallowtail angelfish, a supermale Nahacky wrasse and a male lineatus tonight. They have been in QT for a month now and gone thru 2 weeks of prazipro and 1 week Meracyn 2. They are really healthy and show no sigh of ICH. I talked to LFS about treating them with cupramine, however LFS told me to treat them when only it is needed. Therefore I decided to skip the Cupramine this time, as i really dont think the angelfish can tolerate copper. Am I out of my mind??? I really need second opinion.

Aquaph8 · Dec 1, 2012

Definetly don't treat the wrasses with Cupermine, I've heard the masked angels are sensitive too but don't have any experience with them. If your worried, I'd just observe them really closely for another month.