Banded pipe success

[small alien]

Hey gang. I've had this animal for about 2 years. It's always been a vigorous eater. Mysis, roe and cyclopeez primarily. It's just one of those fish where you feel like it has a strong will to live. It's housed in my 75 with a lot of other pod eaters so not much naturally occurring food.

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Just sharing. Cheers.

[small alien]

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And my bluestripe who's chunky if that's possible for a pipe.

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[Musing.Dog]

Thanks for sharing, that is a thick pipefish. : )

[mtc1966]

very nice . i have been trying to find a dragon face myself.

[mfinn]

Way cool.
I am currently looking for one.

[JCURRY@WESKETCH]

Beautiful. Do you keep the Blueline and banded in the same tank? Can you explain your feeding regime in some more detail? How large & what kind of roe and mysis? Also how often do you feed?

[Bela N]

Beautiful. Can you explain your feeding regime in some more detail? How large & what kind of roe and mysis? Also how often do you feed?

I too am interested.

[Bela N]

Beautiful. Do you keep the Blueline and banded in the same tank? Can you explain your feeding regime in some more detail?

I have 2 male banded (thought I bought a pair :() and a Blueline in the same 140 gal mixed reef tank. Never see the Blueline during the day, it comes out at dusk (actinic only) & swims with the dominant male at the front of the tank. The subordinate male seems to stay behind the rock work during the day & will venture out to the front of the tank and spar with the dominant male at dusk and after lights out ( see thread < http://www.reefcentral.com/forums/showthread.php?t=2156232 >).

Since my Bandeds' rarely eat any of the foods I add, I assume they eat the natural pods in the tank. Occasionally I will see one take frozen cyclopeez.

[small alien]

both are in the same tank and both are quite cryptic. The banded comes out when I feed. They are both out dawn/dusk. If I look at the tank in the middle of the night with the moonlight no, they are typically both out and often together.

I feed 1-5 times a day. Probably 2/3 mysis. Mostly PE but Hikari also. Then roe, pellets, cyclopeeze, etc. It's a lot about the individual fish.

[rssjsb]

What have you seen your banded pipe eat? Just curious. My bluestripe ate mysis and cyclopeeze and was also a fatty, but I think it ate a lot of pods, too. In fact, for the first six months I had it, I never saw it take anything I put in the tank and it was still quite chubby.

I really loved that little fish and have been tempted to try another one, or maybe a pair of Janns in my big tank.

[small alien]

I have seen the banded eat cyclopeeze, prawn roe, rod's coral mix, hikari mysis. Also, it ate one SA pellet once by accident I think. Really chows down on the hikari. Some PE mysis too but it's a bit big to snick.