Pipefish Picture Thread!
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AVALover5498
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Gorgeous pipe and amazing pic hatfielj!
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waterfaller1
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AVALover5498
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Ditto!
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waterfaller1
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Thank you, she is the sweetest fish. I have them flipped now, the bluestripe is in the main tank because it does eat mysis. The dragonface resides in my refugium because she only eats pods. If I keep her in the main tank she just scoots along the bottom and her color begins to fade. As soon as she is in the refugium her color comes back, so that's her home now. I tried a few times and each time the same thing happened..she just won't eat prepared food.
waterfaller1
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She does'nt really put a dent in them, it is a 29 gal. But, I do add live pods to the main tank and the refugium every other month or so to insure their numbers.
masterswimmer
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I'm sorry to be a naysayer here, but once you put ANYTHING in a refugium that eats or is a predator of the refugium's inhabitants it is no longer a refugium. The word refugium is derived from the root word refuge.
Refuge is a safe haven, shelter, protection from danger.
If you're putting a predator (as mild mannered as it may seem) in there, even in the form of a pipefish, then you no longer have what is the true sense of a refugium.
If you're using the 'fuge as a means of nutrient export exclusively, then there is no problem with a pipefish or any other predator in there. However, if you're using the 'fuge as a means to propagate pods for your display, you're defeating the purpose of the refugium.
swimmer
Refuge is a safe haven, shelter, protection from danger.
If you're putting a predator (as mild mannered as it may seem) in there, even in the form of a pipefish, then you no longer have what is the true sense of a refugium.
If you're using the 'fuge as a means of nutrient export exclusively, then there is no problem with a pipefish or any other predator in there. However, if you're using the 'fuge as a means to propagate pods for your display, you're defeating the purpose of the refugium.
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waterfaller1
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Not to be rude..but yeah I knew that. So, I'll call it my nitrate reducer with extra pods. The pods do make it to the display...so this toothpick size pipefish is of no concern to me.
The pods do make it to the display...so this toothpick size pipefish is of no concern to me.masterswimmer
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Not rude at all. Just trying to be informative. Someone who does something like that and still calls it a fuge can't be guaranteed to know that it defeats the purpose.
waterfaller1
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I keep my little dragonface pipefish in there, keep NO3 & PO4 at 0, keep an African Bluestripe, a scooter dragonet, and have for years. I would'nt call it 'defeating it's purpose'. Call it what you want, it's working for me 
Brock Fluharty
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Bebo, where'd you get him?
waterfaller1
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Cool...I've never seen a redstripe, what can you tell us about him?
philter4
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They are hawaiian endemics, I've seen lots of them, but they are really shy. That is the main reason I don't have two prs, I couldn't catch the female of the second pr. Mine eat all sorts of frozen foods and the pr in my reef also have a steady supply of sm live foods available. The single male is in my fish tank and he holds his own fine. They are parasite pickers like the bluestripe but they get 7 or 8 inches. I've never seen mine do this, but all books say they do. The scientific name is Doryrhamphus baldwini. They live in the same habitat as bluestripe, but usually deeper and they get much bigger, in my reef I also have a pr of bluestripes that I collected last oct. I've had them for more then a year. They must be common in the correct habitat because every dive I've looked for them I have seen them, the bluestripes I've only seen a few times. My pair breeds every 6-8 weeks, and the fry hatch, every once in a while I find a larger juv swimming around, but I don't have the space to seperate or raise the fry, maybe in the future.
waterfaller1
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Oh that is so cool. Your location says Fl, but you are talking about diving in Hawaii? I thought bluestripes were from Africa? I added a gorgeous male bluestripe just the other week. My old eyes are getting bad, because I could have sworn my other was a female. They begain to fight right away, the new one winning. So I gave my other one away to a friend.
That is sweet that you can get them to eat frozen. That's what I like about the bluestripes, they will take prepared food.
Thanks for sharing.
That is sweet that you can get them to eat frozen. That's what I like about the bluestripes, they will take prepared food.
Thanks for sharing.
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