Pipefish Buffet

Paul B · May 22, 2014

These are two multi banded and one dragon face pipefish eating new born brine shrimp that they get a few times a day. :wave:
Video

Here are stills of them

revhtree · May 22, 2014

Very cool!

TJ's Reef · May 22, 2014

Great pics Paul, Pipes are such fascinating Fish. May have to add a couple this Fall after my tank upgrade.

Cheers, Todd

SantaMonicaHelp · Jun 4, 2014

Very cool :]

Lovge · Jun 4, 2014

wow that first picture is UNREAL!! how diffucult is taking care of these guys?

mfinn · Jun 4, 2014

Pretty cool. My 50 gallon tank hasn't been the same since I lost my yellow multibanded pipe.

Paul B · Jun 5, 2014

I hatch brine shrimp every day and feed them to the fish twice a day. They are not the easiest fish to keep

Naiad · Jun 5, 2014

Hey Paul, is that some kind of mesh over a power head in the first pic? I am researching adding pipe fish to my reef when I upgrade and I have found that the biggest problem is providing flow for the corals and not killing the pipes. So how do you compensate for their poor swimming ability and still get your acros the flow they want?

Paul B · Jun 5, 2014

The pipefish know how to elude the current. I collect pipefish here in New York in very fast flowing water, they just hide behind rocks. I put on that mesh because I lost my bluestripes and one multi banded pipefish because those Korilia powerheads have pipefish size slots on the sides and the pipefish get stuck so I meshed them

Naiad · Jun 5, 2014

That seems like an easy enough fix. So what your saying is as long as I am not creating a whirlpool I should be fine with the pipefish (as far as current goes). I have used many of your tricks and currently have a breeding pair of mandarins and two very fat leopard wrasse right now. So I am thinking that feeding would be more of the same. Probably put two baby brine feeders in the new tank as the current one gets awfully crowded. I also have an adult brine feeder I use as a distraction for my larger fish.