Bluestripe With Eggs!

[ThePurple12]

Came home this afternoon to find this:

I'm gonna try to raise them. My tank is at 80 degrees, so they should hatch in three nights.

 

[Paulie069]

Came home this afternoon to find this:

I'm gonna try to raise them. My tank is at 80 degrees, so they should hatch in three nights.

What is it

 

[Marty's Reef]

PipeFish

 

[Katrina71]

@fishguy242 take a look! :)

 

[Katrina71]

Please please please document with tons of pics!

 

[ThePurple12]

Please please please document with tons of pics!

Sure!

 

[reef lover]

Lots of pics!

 

[TheShrimpNibbler]

What are you gonna do with all those pipefish if you can successfully raise them?

 

[ThePurple12]

I don't know, maybe sell them to an LFS or Ebay

 

[fishguy242]

nice

 

[fishguy242]

best wishes on raising

 

[ThePurple12]

Thanks, any advice?

 

[fishguy242]

i tried every thing i possibly could with my horses ,batch after batch,for 3 yrs all winter long ,28 days was longest surviver phyto and roti's please do research and try,my pipes are in a240 stuffed reef ,did not try ,good luck keep us posted

 

[fishguy242]

pics of hatchlings would be awesome

 

[ThePurple12]

Bummer about the seahorse fry. I'll try copepods and baby brine shrimp, which I read works well.

 

[fishguy242]

oh yeah i forgot to mention the two bubbling jars of shrimp,scheduled 12 hrs apart fun fun fun

 

[vonjankmon]

My success raising seahorse fry is lack luster but I did manager to get a few to adulthood, here are a few things I learned. You need to constantly be hatching BBS, after 24 hours they are too large for the fry to eat, even right at hatch they're on the borderline. (At least for Erectus Seahorses, assuming the pipefish fry will be similar in size) Copepods are an excellent food but very difficult to breed at a scale for feeding. Feeding often is also important, at least 3 times a day if not more would be better, I always felt that I would have had more success if I could have fed 4-6 times a day but I had to sleep and work so that was just not possible.

 

[ThePurple12]

Thanks. I can do at least 3 feedings a day. How much did you feed?

My success raising seahorse fry is lack luster but I did manager to get a few to adulthood, here are a few things I learned. You need to constantly be hatching BBS, after 24 hours they are too large for the fry to eat, even right at hatch they're on the borderline. (At least for Erectus Seahorses, assuming the pipefish fry will be similar in size) Copepods are an excellent food but very difficult to breed at a scale for feeding. Feeding often is also important, at least 3 times a day if not more would be better, I always felt that I would have had more success if I could have fed 4-6 times a day but I had to sleep and work so that was just not possible.

 

[fishguy242]

be prepared 3 5 gallons with just airline light bubbles no micro , use a shot glass to switch fry never let them get air ,from5 to 5 to 5 every 24 hrs water will high in toxin from amount of foot nessasary so now you have 2 brew bbs going 24 hrs apart ,and rotating 3 5 gallons every day

 

[fishguy242]

research how to screen bbs from boil without casings