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Unread 11/29/2005, 10:55 PM   #26
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Does everyone here have their pipefish in species tanks? Or does anyone have theirs in their reef?
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I have a Blue Stripe Pipefish in my Reidi tank. They are super tankmates. Blue stripes are small -- about 2.5 - 3 inches long. They are strong swimmers, but delicate fish. I would never put one in a reef tank that had aggressive fish in it. They're pretty much like seahorses.

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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Unread 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.

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Unread 11/30/2005, 09:20 AM   #28
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here's my male bluestripe mid-yawn




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Unread 11/30/2005, 09:28 AM   #29
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here's my male bluestripe mid-yawn
Oh, he is gorgeous! Can he come over and play with my female Blue Stripe? She's very lonely. (I have an order in for a male Blue Stripe for her.) The male passed away a little while ago and she is very lonely these days. They were like an old married couple, attached at the hips. It broke my heart when he passed away. I actually cried, because I knew it would break the female's heart to lose him.

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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Unread 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.


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Unread 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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Unread 11/30/2005, 09:56 AM   #32
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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.
Oh yes! They do bond very tightly. My two were never more than an inch apart from each other. And they slept side by side, every night, vertically tucked up under the leaf of a Mermaid's fan plant. Since the male passed away, the female stays pretty much in one place. She doesn't travel around much, other than to go check on the seahorses and see what they're up to.

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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Unread 11/30/2005, 06:36 PM   #33
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How do you determine the sex of the pipefish?


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Unread 11/30/2005, 08:37 PM   #34
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How do you determine the sex of the pipefish?
I can only speak for blue stripe pipefish, because that's what I have. It's really easy to determine sex. Scroll up to jclipper's picture of his male. Do you see those little bumps on his snout? Only males have those bumps. The female's snout is perfectly smooth. Also, a male (blue stripe, anyway) has a concave belly with ridges on each side, while the female's belly is smooth and rounded.

I do not know if these gender clues apply to other species of pipefishes. ??? Does anyone know?


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Unread 11/30/2005, 09:16 PM   #35
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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?

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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!

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Unread 11/30/2005, 09:23 PM   #36
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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.
Russ, do you have a blue stripe pipefish? If you do, and it does have little tiny bumps on its snout, then it's a male. If the snout is smooth, it's a female.

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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Unread 11/30/2005, 10:15 PM   #37
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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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Unread 12/01/2005, 01:14 PM   #38
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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.
Russ
Oh, yeah. I went back and looked. How do you like the Janns? They are very handsome fish, and they look rather similar to the Blue Stripes, with their similar coloring.

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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Unread 12/01/2005, 04:48 PM   #39
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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.

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Unread 12/02/2005, 06:49 AM   #40
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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!



Here's another pic of my wee one:





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Unread 12/02/2005, 01:31 PM   #41
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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,
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Unread 12/02/2005, 03:20 PM   #42
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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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Unread 12/02/2005, 09:45 PM   #43
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Paul B, great shots. That seahorse 'transfer' shot is super.

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Unread 12/03/2005, 07:07 AM   #44
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Russ, thanks, it took a lot of spawnings to get that.
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Unread 12/03/2005, 11:48 AM   #45
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Does everyone here have their pipefish in species tanks? Or does anyone have theirs in their reef?

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I've had my dragonfaced pipefish in my reef for nearly a year now. He's doing well.


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Unread 12/03/2005, 12:09 PM   #46
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LukFox, great to hear. Very encouraging. Thank you. I'm hoping for the same success.

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Unread 12/03/2005, 12:12 PM   #47
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Here's another pic of my wee one:
Greenighs, where did you get the Brevie? It's darling!


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seahorse photos



Let me try this again. A male H. erectus born at Atlantis Marine World.


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Unread 12/03/2005, 01:34 PM   #49
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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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