Banded pipefish daily diet

[foxngn]

Hi all,

Would like to asked, I got a 45cm tank that is a macroalgae tank, currently reside with 1 blue eye cardinal and a turbo snail only.

The tank had been up and running close to 1 year, while macros been there for abt 4 months.
How could I know whether the pods inside the tank is enough for a single pipefish?
Do I need to isolate it inside the tank to train feeding him with live bbs & frozen mysis?

Thanks

 

[xxkenny90xx]

Do you see pods crawling all over the place? Have you made a bbs feeder?

 

[foxngn]

Do you see pods crawling all over the place? Have you made a bbs feeder?

I could see pods crawling on the glass surface, as well as on the macroalgae itself.
I do not have a bbs feeder, but what I thought of is when I harvest bbs, I would put abt a teaspoon or 2 amount of bbs into the tank.
It took me around 8hrs or less for my bbs to hatch, usually last abt 3 days before the amount decimated.

 

[xxkenny90xx]

I could see pods crawling on the glass surface, as well as on the macroalgae itself.
I do not have a bbs feeder, but what I thought of is when I harvest bbs, I would put abt a teaspoon or 2 amount of bbs into the tank.
It took me around 8hrs or less for my bbs to hatch, usually last abt 3 days before the amount decimated.

You really need to put the shrimp in a feeder. Otherwise they'll just swim to the surface and get sucked into filters and powerheads. If they're in a feeder the pipefish can snack on them all day

 

[ThePurple12]

Best to train them onto frozen while feeding BBS. I doubt any pod population in such a small tank could sustain one for long. You don’t need to isolate it.