New pipefish ! What kind !?!

[Dombar]

Just bough this pretty guy..(maybe an girl !) but i didint find any picture to find the real name of this pipefish !

thx !

 

[HollyRoot]

I just saw a picture of one that looked similar to yours in an article by Henry Schultz (Google: Pipefish Care). It was called a Yellow banded....? Can't remember the latin/technical name.

Cute fish!

 

[Dombar]

in fact, the guy at the LFS tell me it was called an yellow spotted pipefish on is list but he was not sure !

my yellow ... is really awesome ! nice colors, and he stay at the bottom of my tank.. he really like the sand but he can climb the small mountain of LR to get some brine shrimps...

I was looking for an pipefish list of pictures with names... any ideas ?

 

[Elysia]

Its a Corthoichthys sp. I don't have Kuiter's book, so I'm not sure if its C. intestinalis or C. haematopterus. They are often called dragonface pipefish in the trade, or messmate or scribbled pipefish.

 

[nbc]

Lots of those kinds of pipefishes in the shallows here in the Philippines. Plus a few other kinds as well.

These particular types can actually be caught by hand. They are that slow!

 

[namxas]

please don't feed the pipe exclusively on brine shrimp, especially if you haven't enriched them. brine shrimp have virtually zero nutritional value unless you gut load them with good things.

that being said, dragon-faced pipes will do well in a mature reef system with lots of pods, but usually will wean onto oyster eggs, cyclopeeze, and small mysis with patience.

HTH

 

[Dombar]

dont worry ! i feed him with new born brine (is it true that they are nutricionnal in the first day they hatch ?) , cyclopeze (most of time..) and small (very very small) pieces of mysis.. and he already like it !!! just like my bluestriped and also red mandarin !!!

But i wonder how to make brine shrimp nutricionnal ?
do i put some liquid/ garlic flavour/ vitamin stuff (i already had some to my mysis..) !??

 

[Elysia]

From what I understand (and a link to a scientific paper on brine sprimp was posted in this forum in the last three months) baby brine shrimp that are hatched from decapped cysts do have some nutritional value, as do enriched brine shrimp -- brine shrimp are filter feeders who do not begin to feed until 24(?) hours after hatching -- then you can add liquid nutrients to their water for them to feed on, but you have to be careful, because too much supplement will just crash the culture.

 

[small alien]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=15355270#post15355270 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by nbc
Lots of those kinds of pipefishes in the shallows here in the Philippines. Plus a few other kinds as well.

These particular types can actually be caught by hand. They are that slow!

That would be so cool. I'm jealous!

 

[nbc]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=15370541#post15370541 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by small alien
That would be so cool. I'm jealous!

One of the benefits of living in a tropical country.

And with what you guys pay for the fishes over there... man... i feel for you guys.

That being said, you have the benefit of better access to equipment and supplies (supplements, etc.)... so, you have got it good in some other ways.