General
This fish buries itself when stressed or at night, so needs a fine layer of sand at least 2-4". It is not uncommon for the fish to bury itself in the sand for the first couple of days of being introduced to the aquarium.
Black leopard wrasse
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- Family
- Labridae
- Maximum Size
- 12cm, 5"
- Minimum Tank Size
- 501 to 1000 Litres
- Care level
- Difficult
- Group compatibility
- Keep singly
- Temperament
- Peaceful
- Compatibility with hard corals
- No Issues
- Compatibility with soft corals
- No Issues
- Compatibility with Invertabrates
- No Issues
- Feeding
- These are difficult fish to feed and should be thought of as much the same feeding a Mandarin, requiring a good healthy amphipod and copepod population. In a small tanks the pod population will be decimated fairly quickly and the fish will starve. Hence the large minimum tank size.
Best success is when there is plenty of live rock where they can browse and a refugium connected to the aquarium replenishing the pod life.
You can supplement their feeding by offering finely chopped seafood for carnivores.
- Diet
- Carnivore
Item information
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