Biota Janss' Pipefish & Mandarin Pairs

[rcpiv93]

This post serves two purpose: first of all, I'd just like to brag. I received a pair of Janss' Pipefish from Biota today and they are incredible. I had a tank cycled and waiting for a pair of mandarins that I plan to grow out before adding to my 200g display. When I saw the pipefish were available, I figured there would be no better time to pull the trigger.

The second reason for the post is to ask others of their experiences with these fish, with the mandarins, or with Biota itself. The pipefish are already eating a mix of calanus and cyclopods. The mandarins are not yet eating, but they were only introduced a few hours ago. No one has shown interest in crushed pellets at this point.

That being said, do you have any secrets? Do you think I would be able to add the pipefish to my main display when they get bigger? It's a mixed reef with a couple tangs, lyretail anthias, some gobies, some wrasses, and two angels (a flame and a Lamarck's).

 

[TX_REEF]

no experience with pipefish, but as for biota, I have a yellow tang from them that is nearing 2 years old. super healthy.

 

[rcpiv93]

no experience with pipefish, but as for biota, I have a yellow tang from them that is nearing 2 years old. super healthy.

I also have a yellow tang from them. It arrived translucent. And within a week it redeveloped decent color. Now I’m waiting for the deep yellow to show.

 

[EliMelly]

I got pipefish from Dr reef who may have sourced them from Biota. Had them almost a week now and so far so good!

 

[Paul B]

I had 2 Janss pipefish, one lived for 7 years which is probably their lifespan. Really nice and beautiful fish. I have only seen 3 of them in my life and I owned them.



I have other pipefish and I always have breeding mandarins, ruby red dragonettes, scooter bleenies and bluestripe pipefish.





They all get along fine and are all spawning except the Janss as I was left with one. Two of them killed each other.





The Janss almost exclusively lived on frozen mysis.

Mandarins are the easiest fish to keep but should not be fed crushed pellets or any kind of pellets. They live on living pods and there should be enough in the tank for them to hunt enough for themselves.

 

[OrionN]

Several of my mandarin eat sinking pellets in my 40 gal system. If they are with other fishes, they are likely not have any pellets reach to sand for them, but in QT system, I over feed and they have no problem with eating pellets.

 

[patrck17]

I got a yellow tang from Biota and it was small and transparent. It didn’t survive the night. I emailed them and they sent me a gift card for the price. Not shipping. I used it to buy another and this one survived.

Not necessarily going one way or the other. But the process was fast they didnt ask they just issued the credit. So in my experience it’s a good vendor to deal with.

 

[rcpiv93]

Thanks all for the reply. I’ve had them for a while and they’re all doing great!