Richocet83
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Nope. Coral Corral
Got a pipe...
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Richocet83
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Made an observation over the last few days. Pipefish, or at least mine, seem to be very visually oriented hunters. I've offered food (Cyclop-Eeze) during full light, actinic light only, and no lights to find my pipe only feeds when the full lights are on, and at that, only feeds on the bright red ones. When the actinics are on or all lights are out she swims past everything, ignoring even the red Cyclop-Eeze they she takes with great gusto during the day. Since noticing this lack of visual contact in lower light, I have only offered food during "daylight" hours the last few days. Anybody else notice this? Does anybody else's pipe eat only during daylight?
I have noticed that... I have not tried feeding at night either. My experience so far studying how they eat and behaviors. Just to go over a few I have observed. One when I placed one of my regal angels in the qt with my blue line pipe he actually cleaned the ich off the regal angel I thought that was cool. I have also noticed that the all of my pipe fish the two banded and the blue line pipe fish have taken a liking to mysis and cyclopeez. I have observed them eating only the head of the mysis when first introducing them, with the blue line and both banded. A few weeks later the larger of the banded started to eat the whole mysis, but he would still only eat ones that he could see the eyes on. The smaller blue line and banded still ate the same. A couple weeks later I tried the cyclops and the small banded and the blue line loved them they started right away and only picked the red ones. I noticed the large banded showed no interest. My final and most recent observation is feeding with no flow. Last week I went to feed and decided to turn off the MP40 I fed mysis and cyclopeez and they eat a much larger amount off food if it is on the floor or a rock they are all eating mysis and cylops and I add amphipods and CP. So with the flow off I think they inspect it longer and can make a better decision before eating. Just some things I have observed over the last three months.
When brine shrimp cysts contact your tank water, either directly or via hatching water, you do risk the chance of causing problems in the tank as the cysts are known to harbour nasty bacteria.
You can mitigate this if you decap or sterilize the cysts before placing them in the hatcher.
You can mitigate this if you decap or sterilize the cysts before placing them in the hatcher.
