Update:
Ornate arrived alive! Step one. Very stressed out. As to be expected. Noticed slightly injured mouth and some fin tears ( noted as blemish from DD). Not expected but not surprised as leopards do not ship well and are known to damage their mouths trying to burrow into things that are not sand.
I got a good look at it and it seems to be a male Ornate coming in at 4 inches with good weight/mass.
Lights remained off for approximately 6 hours to help with acclimation. Lights where only turned on for 2 hours super low to feed its QT partners.
Ornate showed zero interest in the sand box I provided. Wedged himself in the between the sand box and the glass for those 6 hours.
Lights came on and normal ISH day time behavior began. ( I was surprised and figured it wouldn't move much for at least 24 hours)
He than went ahead actually ate! He ate three pieces of frozen mysis and demolished approximately 10-15 PELLETS!!!! I was blown away that he ate pellets. He showed zero interest in masstick. Step two of getting him eating before raising to therapeutic levels of copper shows high promise.
Still showed zero interest in the sand box, until the significant other was like " why don't you put a rock on the sand so it doesn't look so "fake" ". I will have to give her the credit on this one. Two seconds after I put a rock on the sand. He went straight into the sand. ( I know the rock with soak up my currently 1ppm CP levels. I will remove in the next day or two once the wrasse is comfortable and will begin bringing it back up)
Ornate arrived alive! Step one. Very stressed out. As to be expected. Noticed slightly injured mouth and some fin tears ( noted as blemish from DD). Not expected but not surprised as leopards do not ship well and are known to damage their mouths trying to burrow into things that are not sand.
I got a good look at it and it seems to be a male Ornate coming in at 4 inches with good weight/mass.
Lights remained off for approximately 6 hours to help with acclimation. Lights where only turned on for 2 hours super low to feed its QT partners.
Ornate showed zero interest in the sand box I provided. Wedged himself in the between the sand box and the glass for those 6 hours.
Lights came on and normal ISH day time behavior began. ( I was surprised and figured it wouldn't move much for at least 24 hours)
He than went ahead actually ate! He ate three pieces of frozen mysis and demolished approximately 10-15 PELLETS!!!! I was blown away that he ate pellets. He showed zero interest in masstick. Step two of getting him eating before raising to therapeutic levels of copper shows high promise.
Still showed zero interest in the sand box, until the significant other was like " why don't you put a rock on the sand so it doesn't look so "fake" ". I will have to give her the credit on this one. Two seconds after I put a rock on the sand. He went straight into the sand. ( I know the rock with soak up my currently 1ppm CP levels. I will remove in the next day or two once the wrasse is comfortable and will begin bringing it back up)
