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11/29/2005, 10:55 PM | #26 | |
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My blue stripe eats pods and bbs -- only live food. I wish I could put her in my reef tank, because my reef is teeming with pods. But she's in my SH tank, where she hangs with the horses. She even checks on them regularly to see what they're up to.
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11/29/2005, 11:03 PM | #27 |
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April, thank you for your quick reply.
Mine is in my reef and nobody bothers him at all. My most aggressive fish is a Kole Tang, so it's not an aggressive tank, just more aggressive feeders. The Jann's Pipefish is also a pod eater and I've got a fuge teeming with pods and 130 lbs of LR in the display. So far he seems happy, but two weeks is about two years shy of knowing if it's been a success or not. Russ
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11/30/2005, 09:20 AM | #28 |
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here's my male bluestripe mid-yawn
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11/30/2005, 09:28 AM | #29 | |
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Don't they have the tiniest mouths you've ever seen? What does yours eat? Mine eats baby brine shrimp and any pods I can find to stick in there with her.
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11/30/2005, 09:44 AM | #30 |
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thanks - yeah, he's a bit of a show off too!
I feed them 'marine cuisine' frozen mix - but just the little whole shrimps out of it using a small pipette - just once a day. I've had them for nearly a year now and the male usually has a full pouch (looks a bit empty in the photo) - never seen any babies though. I'd love to send him over, but Mrs pipefish wouldn't be too happy! - like you say, they really have a strong pair bond it seems. |
11/30/2005, 09:50 AM | #31 |
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Here is a male H. erectus born here at ATlantis Marine World in 2004.
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11/30/2005, 09:56 AM | #32 | |
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I have asked my LFS/marine distributor to get me another male for her, and perhaps one or two more females. They do well in groups, I hear, as long as there is only one male. The males will not get along with each other.
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How do you determine the sex of the pipefish?
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11/30/2005, 08:37 PM | #34 | |
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I do not know if these gender clues apply to other species of pipefishes. ??? Does anyone know?
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Thanks April. Wow, mine doesn't get into view quite that close lol. I'll have to really examine him/her for that clue. If it doesn't have the bumps, your not sure that it's a female though.
Does anyone else know if sexing all pipefish is the same? Thanks, Russ BTW, this has been my first venture into pipefish. He has been with me now for a little over 2 weeks. During the day he/she stays hidden amongst the rocks. At night it sleeps under an overhang in a cave out in the open. Occasionally I'll see it after daylights go out and actinics come on. Would this be an indication that it's scavenging for food (pods) amongst the LR? So much to learn! Thank you, Russ
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My blue stripe swims around most of the day, hunting on the glass and rocks for pods. They are constant grazers. I also feed mine live baby brine shrimp (enriched) twice a day, too. I tried frozen Cyclopeeze with her, but she really doesn't like dead food. She's probably wild caught. Once the lights go out, she goes to sleep underneath the overhang of a fake coral. They aren't nocturnal, at least mine isn't. She goes to bed when the horses go to bed, when the lights go out.
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April, mine is a Jann's Pipefish. I posted a pic. It's the last post on page one. I don't want to repost the same pic.
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I wonder if there are many people on this board who have pipefish? I really enjoy mine -- she is so relaxing to watch. She's like a water ballerina, so graceful. I could watch her for hours. I'd love to have a tank full of pipefish.
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I'd really like my pipefish more if she'd spend more time out in the open. I never see her until lights out. That's when she retreats to her cave, which happens to be in the front of the tank (fortunately for me, or I wouldn't even know if she were still alive ).
She is a beautiful blue, orange and purple though. Great colors. I'm going to look for a mate for her. My fear is that I'll determine the wrong sex and have a war going on here. Russ
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Same thing with my janns pipes. They'd come out at dawn and dusk and do figure-8s in the water, parallel to the front glass. Sometimes, just to watch them, I'd turn off the MH lights and leave the actinics on in the middle of the day, for a few minutes. So beautiful!
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greenighs, great feedback. At least I'm feeling more comfortable knowing mine isn't weirded out or still in shock from being in a full blown reef. Not a species only tank.
Thanks, Russ
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Here art some Erectus I collected in new York. The female is in the process of transfering the eggs. The right picture is the fry and the bottom picture has nothing to do with seahorses, it is my reef many years ago.
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Paul B, great shots. That seahorse 'transfer' shot is super.
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Russ, thanks, it took a lot of spawnings to get that.
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LukFox, great to hear. Very encouraging. Thank you. I'm hoping for the same success.
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Let me try this again. A male H. erectus born at Atlantis Marine World.
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A pair of H. reidi transferring eggs in my broodstock system at Hofstra University
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Okay, so it's not exactly a seahorse or a pipefish, but isn't it close enough? These are some bluespotted cornetfish, Fistularia tabacaria , that I cought a couple of years ago. They are now over 4 feet long.
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