Potter's Wrasse

[titus'reef]

what do you guys think about the Potter's Wrasse? I know they are really hard to keep alive? Does anyone have any?

[CoralCrazy]

Talk to Robert (Reefit). I believe he has one.

[ReeFit]

Yes I do. Brad (reefnjunkie) also successfully keeps one. I went through 4 of them before I got one to live. The are heavy pod eaters and require sand 2" minimum sand bed. I have a few inches of sand in a little plastic box he goes into and burys to the bottom every night. I feed frozen arctipods.

[titus'reef]

how often do you feed the fish? Did you have to teach it eat the arctipods?

[titus'reef]

I dont' know much about it and i made the mistake and bought one before i researched it first.

[ReeFit]

it took nearly 2 weeks for it to eat. i tried cyclopeze, frozen brine, mysis and the only thing i could get him to eat was live pods. try getting a bottle of tigger pods to start getting him used to eating in the tank, then slowly switch over to arctipods, mine would test them out but spit them back out. if you have other fish that eat them it will help stimulate it to eat as well.

[titus'reef]

i see him eating stuff from the rocks already and it's only been 2 days since i have it. So i guess that is a good thing.

[reefnjunkie]

I had placed mine in a 20 gallon that had no other fish in it-call it a Q/T I guess, although it was primarily my frag tank.

After about a week or two it was eating frozen brine, I waited another 2-3 weeks before introducing him into the main tank, I wanted to be sure this one lived

 

It now eats whatever I throw in the tank.

 

I went the Q/T route sine the 1st Leopard wrasse died, and then a Potters wrasse kicked the bucket-It could have been that this one was part of the fish buy from one of our sponsors (Aloha Corals) so I was able to skip all the "middle men". Sadly they have a high mortality rate which I assume is the difficulty in getting them eating.

 

Good luck with yours, the fact that it's pecking at the rocks is a good sign

[titus'reef]

now it is too late for me to do the same. i went and bought arctipods and a bottle of tigger pods but i'm nos sure how to fid the fish with the live pods. should i aclimate at night and than pour the whole thing in the tank at night so they populate the tank?

[lewisriverfisherman]

I also have one of these fish. I never saw my fish for almost 2 weeks and figured it was a goner. Mine would only come out for a couple of hours a day and it was usually when i wasn't home. So i had my daughter feed the tank frozen cyclopeze. After a week or so of eating the frozen cyclopeze it took to eating the mysis shrimp and brine shrimp, now it eats everything i put in my tank. It would seem that we all have a different story about our potters wrasse and how they ate in the beginning. I agree it is a good sign that yours is picking at the rocks this means that it is hungry and look to eat food. By the way it took me 4 fish before one lived. Good luck!!

[titus'reef]

hopefully I will get this one to eat soon and wont have to go through what you went.

Thank you

[titus'reef]

a quick update on the Potter's wrasse:

he's just fine now 4 days after i bought it. he didn't really eat in the first 3 days but now on the 4th day he's eating brine shrimp.(yahoo)