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Why would anyone want their leopards to transition??
They are much prettier as females??
Some not all. Potters look great males and females. Viviens male adds a tiny bit of more color. Ornate adds a little color as male. Blue spots I like as females and meleagris I like as females but males look good also.
Choats look good both ways also. Viviens and choats most can’t sex. Reef pro can’t but sell viviens as males for $500 plus.

Also I think blacks look better as male
 
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Some not all. Potters look great males and females. Viviens male adds a tiny bit of more color. Ornate adds a little color as male. Blue spots I like as females and meleagris I like as females but males look good also.
Choats look good both ways also. Viviens and choats most can’t sex. Reef pro can’t but sell viviens as males for $500 plus.
You should be able to actually see them today!!!
 

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Why would anyone want their leopards to transition??
They are much prettier as females??
Honestly, the black is the same both ways IMO.
Kuiters are nicer as females but also have nice males.
Moyers look the same either way and I don’t really like them too much.
Blue Stars are always nicer as female, Marisrubri however I like both.
Potters I love both male and females, but prefer the bluer appearance of the female.
Choat’s are gorgeous either way - as crabby said they’re hard to tell the sex of.
Vivienne is the same as the choati.
Meleagris is gorgeous as female, the male is beautiful but I prefer the females.
Ornatus is a hard one as I’ve yet to see a male in person but photos of them are beautiful.
 

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Honestly, the black is the same both ways IMO.
Kuiters are nicer as females but also have nice males.
Moyers look the same either way and I don’t really like them too much.
Blue Stars are always nicer as female, Marisrubri however I like both.
Potters I love both male and females, but prefer the bluer appearance of the female.
Choat’s are gorgeous either way - as crabby said they’re hard to tell the sex of.
Vivienne is the same as the choati.
Meleagris is gorgeous as female, the male is beautiful but I prefer the females.
Ornatus is a hard one as I’ve yet to see a male in person but photos of them are beautiful.
Agree with this but also cyanoguttatus is prettier female
 

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Rhomboid stopped for a picture during lunch time.

Fed some reef frenzy, but get a little frustrated because it’s either too chunky and the pieces end up on the bottom where they are now invisible to the column feeders, or I mash it up too fine with a fork and it’s like a soup… might need to try something else

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Rhomboid stopped for a picture during lunch time.

Fed some reef frenzy, but get a little frustrated because it’s either too chunky and the pieces end up on the bottom where they are now invisible to the column feeders, or I mash it up too fine with a fork and it’s like a soup… might need to try something else

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A lot of waste with frozen like that. Find it easier big tank with a lot of different size fish and a lot of hungry coral.
About how big is he now?
 

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Well @Crabby48 want to try and defend this? This is almost Dr Reef levels of wrasse ID ineptitude. Can’t even spell the genus right :face-with-tears-of-joy:

Edit: and the species (which is of course actually filamentosus) is spelled wrong too
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Rhomboid stopped for a picture during lunch time.

Fed some reef frenzy, but get a little frustrated because it’s either too chunky and the pieces end up on the bottom where they are now invisible to the column feeders, or I mash it up too fine with a fork and it’s like a soup… might need to try something else

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Get a tilefish. They don’t let any food get to the bottom. Never had a more aggressive eater lol
 

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A lot of waste with frozen like that. Find it easier big tank with a lot of different size fish and a lot of hungry coral.
About how big is he now?

Yeah, I’m kinda over reef frenzy now. The current batch is the “nano” version, and I don’t think it’s any different really. Just kinda messy.

Rhomboid is around 3-3.25 inches or so now
 

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Rhomboid stopped for a picture during lunch time.

Fed some reef frenzy, but get a little frustrated because it’s either too chunky and the pieces end up on the bottom where they are now invisible to the column feeders, or I mash it up too fine with a fork and it’s like a soup… might need to try something else

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There’s some meat on that fish
 

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Get a tilefish. They don’t let any food get to the bottom. Never had a more aggressive eater lol

I’ve never had a tile fish, but some of these really pretty ones that have popped up in recent years have made me consider it.

I have a bare bottom tank though, and not sure how they’d do without sand.
 

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Sand sleepers are little hard to help transition but can be done. Also depends on what leopard as some will transition and some will not without being pushed.
But yes I can get wrasse to transition by introducing a reason for them weather it’s new fish that poses a threat to established fish or by group. Groups can only be done with select wrasse in a big enough tank. Also can only keep groups with wrasse that won’t transition in captivity.
I have a Meleagris leopard, is this one that will transition without being pushed? When you say you introduce new fish, do you mean any fish, or specifically another species of leopard wrasse?
 

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There’s some meat on that fish

Probably from my patented (and likely unhealthy long term) “FishRoids” diet haha.

TDO pellets for lunch, ROE eggs late afternoon, some mysis for a snack before lights ramp down. Everyone started packing on mass.
 

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