Pipefish dominated tank....

[MADtanks]

Ok I am wanting to start a tank specifically for pipefish 30G finnex M(glass) tank. I would like to know if it would be ok to keep diff species of pipe fish in one tank? I want to keep.....

a pair of blue stripe pipes, 1 banded, and 1 dragon face..... would this be ok?

for a skimmer i am going to go with a deltec MCE300 and for circulation i will use 2 tunze 6055 on a controller, why so much flow? for all my SPS that will be moved into this tank. I want to start a build thread but i havent received my tank yet still waiting... just wantig to know if my pipe stocking is good or not. Thank you in advance.

 

[mrme]

pipefish do better then seahorses in tanks with high flow.
I would get more dragon pipes, they are great little guys with alot of personality, and IME very hardy, compared to other pipefish such as the bluestripe.

 

[Calvin Krog]

hello
this sounds like it could workvery well! pipe fish tanks are amazing tosimply moniter and appreciate, just make sure you do a greatamount of research before setting up!
regards

calvin

 

[b0bby1]

erick, i saw some multibanded and bandeds at puppy center a few days ago. i am also planning on a 20 Long frag tank with a pair of multibanded pipes. very cool fish. where do you plan on buying urs?

 

[MADtanks]

yea i have been doing research on these little guys for a while now, and i had a multi banded in my office tank but the poor little guy decided to go swimming in the overflow and back thru the return pump, u get the pic

bobby i got my initial one from puppy center, but i want to get a pair of dragon face, a pair of blue stripe, and maybe a pair of multibanded.... the tank will be strickly pipefish and maybe a mandarin but i doubt it. as far as where i will get them will probably be from the web somewhere.... i have the link somewhere but i have to find it where they have all the pipes i want in stock

thanks guys i will keep you all posted

 

[ann83]

erickrm, the pipefish will outcompete the mandarin for food, so I wouldn't put one in a tank together with all of those pipefish unless they are ALL eating prepared foods. Even then, I personally wouldn't do it, because they all do need copepods to supplement their diet for maximum health, and I don't think that would be possible with the stocking density you are looking at.

 

[MADtanks]

that is the exact reason why i don't think i will do it anymore, i just didn't want to deal with trying to get rid of all the fish in my current tank and my dad's tank already has a mandarin so i figured i would keep mine but in the end i would much rather just have pipefish anyways thank you for the heads up anyway.