New Pipefish tank inhabitants question

[Bluetangclan]

Hello, I have been frequenting the macro board lately in prep for my 90 gal tank I am setting up. Its going to be either a true seagrass tank or a faux grasstank using leafy macro and such. Its also going to have quite a bit of macro regardless along with some leathers(theres a Youtube video I have seen with leathers growing amoungst grassbeds that I am basing my plan off of). Now that that part is covered, there will also be rocky outcroppings at either one or both ends with maybe some zoos and sargassum weed.

I plan on keeping Pipefish mainly and possibly having banghai cards later in the future. For pipes I was primarily thinking Alligator, harlequin, and gulf pipes(the latter are fairly common and I can collect or get given them for free as they come in with large grass shrimp orders at the LFS as hitchhikers, gulfs being perhaps the easiest of all pipes to keep alive and happy). I might do banded and alligators together, I would think they would be ok with each other right?

I also want to keep shrimp I can normally not keep in my reef tank. Camelback shrimp being the main ones. Has anyone ever kept Saron Shrimp or have any info on them? Beautiful shrimp but not alot of info related to how they behave with others that I have found, both with other shrimp and pipes.

Ill be posting a blog as I go. Waiting to get rid of some tropheus cichlids who currently reside in the corner this tank is going in.

 

[Elysia]

Post on the "other inverts" forum if you want to know more about the Saron shrimp. They won't be able to be kept w/ the zoanthids, though, as they are polyp eaters. I believe they may be best kept to themselves, but I am not certain about that. Of course, cammelback shrimp will eat zoas as well.

W/ the Gulf pipes, I think you would want to stay away from any aggressively predatory inverts, as they seem to be very benethic pipes, just hanging around. I would suggest temperatures in the mid 70s for them. I suppose it wouldn't hurt to see if they would do well with the Alligators, because, as you mention, you have a ready supply of them.

The set up sounds good for Alligators. Bandeds are a bit more of reef type pipe, and so they don't really fit with this tank -- but I think that it will make a great display for the Alligators, and the Gulfs could be really interesting element for the lower part of the tank.

 

[Bluetangclan]

Heres the idea i am going for. Saron was just an idea, tank is planned for the pipes mainly. Camels are just cool to watch as well. Theres banded in here as well, not to argue your point.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mfBMe1CiJI4

 

[namxas]

that was a nice dive. can't wait to see the tank...DO post pix of the build.

 

[Elysia]

No problem -- to me, it showed the alligators on the sea grass bed, and the banded more toward a coral head. That was a cool video.