Blue Star Leopard Wrasse

[1234-fishy-freind]

Hi guys. I am really chuffed with my blue star leopard wrasse (Macropharyngodon bipartitus) progress. I noticed this fish at my lfs a few weeks back and it really caught my eye with its great colour and interesting body markings so I went home and read about it. Much to my dissapointment nearly all sources classed this as a difficult fish as it is very similar to mandarins in its feeding habbits, usually only accepting live foods and often having a poor survival rate.
The fish remained in the shop and I saw it being fed and noticed it took frozen brine shrimp rather well. The next time I went in I took enough money with me to buy this fish, but before I did I asked to see it feed, and sure enough it fed well on more frozen brine so I bit the bullet and took it home.

I have had this fish for about 5 days now (in quarentine) and ever day it shows the same amazing appetite for frozen brine shrimp, with small feedings of maybe 4-5 shrimp 4-5 times a day. I know I am not totally in the clear yet as he (Gershwin) has not been with me long but looking at how well he is feeding, it looks like it could be a success. He will spend 4 weeks in quarentine, during which time I will try get him feeding on flakes and other foods.

It just goes to show that some individual fish dont go by what the book says!

Josh

 

[SchottayB]

Sounds great, good luck with him and keep us posted

Post some pictures if you can, would be nice to see

 

[-Nemo-]

I love these fish as well, we get them in quite often at work. It seems to me it's pretty 50/50 with their feeding. 50% usually eat frozen well while the other never takes frozen food. Do be aware that they have the tendency to never leave the sand and eventually starving to death, if there are bullies in the tank

And oh yea, pictures!