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Unread 04/30/2020, 01:38 AM   #2
ThRoewer
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Any chance you will be able to breed Doryrhamphus janssi in the foreseeable future? The wild ones are extremely hard to find and usually arrive so sick that few make it even with the best care and plenty of live food. Those would be great to be available as tank bred, especially since they are a reef species that can be kept in high flow reef tanks.

BTW, the banded pipefish are not in the genus Doryrhamphus but rather Dunckerocampus. Aside from general morphological and behavioral differences there is also a difference in the way males carry the eggs: Doryrhamphus have an open pouch that partially covers the eggs while Dunckerocampus males carry the eggs fully exposed.
Dunckerocampus dactyliophorus @ marinespecies.org


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Pairs: 4 percula, 3 P. kauderni, 3 D. excisus, 1 ea of P. diacanthus, S. splendidus, C. altivelis O. rosenblatti, D. janssi, S. yasha & a Gramma loreto trio
3 P. diacanthus. 2 C. starcki

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