New Pipes

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Greetings friends. I just got 2 yellow multi bands and one apparently female red sea bluestripe from Live Aquaria (not DD). I had them in qt for one week. The bluestripe ate roe but the multis only supplemented live pods. So I decided to put them in the dt with a banded who is a good eater hoping they'll learn and have more natural prey while they do so. Not really able to get a shot of the very cryptic bluestripe. Here are some of the multis.

 

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And, just for the heck of it, a shot of my ORA Target Madarin cruising behind a mighty stand of Tubastrea.

 

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Double post.

 

[Bretts05jeep]

very nice!

hate to go off subject but how do you post large pictures like that. All I can do is the small attachments which dont show any detail.

 

[Peka]

Very nice... I would suggest keeping the temp of the tank that you have the banded pipefish in below 74 degrees...

 

[small alien]

If you use photobucket, use the html link for "IMG". Cut and paste that code into your post.

Both just ate frozen cyclopeeze for the first time! First one ate, then the other. Here's a little vid of the first one.

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[kimack@tampabay]

Very nice... I would suggest keeping the temp of the tank that you have the banded pipefish in below 74 degrees...

Really? I was looking for one of these Pipe fish but had no idea the temps needed to be this low.

 

[small alien]

Very nice... I would suggest keeping the temp of the tank that you have the banded pipefish in below 74 degrees...

Thanks, Peka. I will bring the temp down some over the next several days. Maybe shoot fo r 76? Thanks for the thought.

 

[small alien]

Really? I was looking for one of these Pipe fish but had no idea the temps needed to be this low.

I think 74 is ideal for the same reasons as horses. Please correct me if I'm wrong. But I believe people do have success with flag tails at" reef temps". Thoughts?

 

[TamiW]

Ive always kept flagtail pipefish at reef temps and not had the same issues that seahorses have with infection. Ymmv.

 

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What have yours eaten, FISHGRRL?

And, indeed, it is about the snick.

 

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Bluestripe under blue lights.

 

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[WaffleWalffle22]

When you ordered your yellow multi band from liveaquaria, how did you make sure one was going to be male and the other female?

 

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I called and asked but they said no guarantee. Knowing the species is peaceful toward its own kind, I went for it. I think I got lucky. They're always together. With the bluestripe, since they said no, I just got one as two males wont tolerate eachother. I think I have a female bluestripe as males have snoutbumps and mine does not. Could be juvi though I guess.