Dragon pipefish

[jaganshi066]

I’m looking to get two of these but I’m wondering if anyone has experience keeping them with fish? I can target feed and do get live brine weekly so I don’t think feeding will be an issue. More worried about my dwarf angels attacking.

 

[blaxsun]

I've tried twice with these but never had any luck keeping for any length of time. I never could get them onto frozen, but if you're feeding live brine I suspect you'll have much more luck than myself. I did have a dwarf angelfish in with the pair of pipefish and they more or less ignored them (to be fair, the pipefish also just hung out in the corner or on a rock ledge most of the time).

 

[Paul B]

I have quite a bit of experience with those and other pipefish. They can and will eat all the new born brine shrimp you can hatch and you should hatch them every day. I doubt they will eat anything but live food and need to eat all day. Even in my very old reef I have to feed them.

Feeding a few times a week won't work for long and I doubt your dwarf angels will bother them as most fish don't bother pipefish.

 

[jaganshi066]

@blaxsun @Paul B thank you. Hmm in your experience have you ever fed anything that wasn’t live brine? Also can eat brine that’s a bit larger cause the store doesn’t sell brine that small like the ones in your video. I see two at the store near me and they seem pretty small, how old are yours @Paul B?

 

[Paul B]

I don't have them any more, that video was 3 years old. You need to hatch brine shrimp. The eggs are cheap and they hatch in about 30 hours.
In an old tank they will find a lot of food hunting.

 

[jaganshi066]

I don't have them any more, that video was 3 years old. You need to hatch brine shrimp. The eggs are cheap and they hatch in about 30 hours.
In an old tank they will find a lot of food hunting.

Do you think will eat cyclops?

 

[CoralNerd]

I have a bluestriped pipefish and it lives on pods coming from the tank. I don't feed it anything. The bluestriped pipefish is a smaller species of pipefish.

 

[Mr. Mojo Rising]

pipefish doesnt have a stomach, it basically needs to eat constantly, high demand pet if you dont have the pod population to maintain it

 

[jaganshi066]

I have a bluestriped pipefish and it lives on pods coming from the tank. I don't feed it anything. The bluestriped pipefish is a smaller species of pipefish.

How long have you had it? In terms of hardiness which pipefish do you think is hardier?

 

[CoralNerd]

Added 10/20/20 so almost a year. I added two but I had to give one back as they were both males.

 

[Paul B]

Do you think will eat cyclops?

I think dragonfaces will eat anything tiny that "moves." Bluestripes are by far the easiest and will live in a mature tank with no feeding as they are very good at hunting. My pair is way past their lifespan and still spawning with no help from me.