Yellow multi banded pipe
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Bratyboy2
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55 gallon just for pipes and maybe seahorses later. This is very frustrating. I knew what I was getting into but didn't expect to be down to one with no one really taking a thing.
Well it won't be till Tuesday that my local store gets me one in and LA has me credited for 2 now.
I pray that I can get the blue stripe eating so maybe the yellow will follow
Well it won't be till Tuesday that my local store gets me one in and LA has me credited for 2 now.
I pray that I can get the blue stripe eating so maybe the yellow will follow
Bratyboy2
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Okay just I know and everyone else that might be following.
Foods that I have tried:
nutramar ova
Frozen brine
Frozen baby brine
frozen cyclops by ocean nutrition
Frozen cyclops by omega one
SFB brand mysis
hikari mysis
Rods fish only formula
Emerald entree
Only thing eaten has been omega one cyclops with little gusto
Foods that I have tried:
nutramar ova
Frozen brine
Frozen baby brine
frozen cyclops by ocean nutrition
Frozen cyclops by omega one
SFB brand mysis
hikari mysis
Rods fish only formula
Emerald entree
Only thing eaten has been omega one cyclops with little gusto
Bratyboy2
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No I don't I was trying to keep a rather clean tank for Sps which never had luck with...plus I have a sand sifting goby in the tank so you know he's eating the pods too....
The 10 is seeded with trigger pods which I see are gone and regular pods that I see running around. I have some mysis ready to go right now that is room temp now...cross your fingers
The 10 is seeded with trigger pods which I see are gone and regular pods that I see running around. I have some mysis ready to go right now that is room temp now...cross your fingers
Bratyboy2
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I shinned a light in the tank a few minutes ago and there are a bunch of larger pods running around the tank. Both the multi and the blue stripe are still kicking....well at least I know there is food.
Taking the carpet into the LFS tomorrow. Might just move the yellow in there see if he does any better
Taking the carpet into the LFS tomorrow. Might just move the yellow in there see if he does any better
bills tank
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Hey guys bratyboy2 aquatic tech carries lrs reef frenzy and my pipes and manderan love it the whole tank does too but I have a 40b mixed reef mostly sps and have one like yours and dragon face and the pipefish bolth go crazy for the reef frenzy . I never had a problem with them eating and yrs ago when I got my manderan it was a tooth pick and is huge now . My sand and rocks r all my original from my first saltwater tank over twenty years ago I've transfered this tank once and have had many others throughout the years but this tank has been going since I started so any hr of the day u can see any and prob every type of zooplankton moving around I have thousands probably of mysis and I'm sure that helps a lot but even after having the manderan for around five years and the dragon face for three now the bandeds new but I've never seen a shortage of pods or mysis etc in the tank and like I said they all love the lrs frozen food so it can b a combo of all that but I'd try the lrs reef frenzy cuz it has tons of stuff in it and most of it pipefish will eat . Hope this helps .
fishguy194
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I've had great success with this species. Converting them to frozen food is possible but not easy. And relying on natural fauna within the aquarium is rarely successful. Here's what I did:
I quarantined 4 of them in a cycled bare 15 gallon with just some PVC pipe for hiding places. To initiate feeding I started them on newly hatched LIVE baby brine shrimp. They ate this very greedily, as I assumed it had been a while since they ate. Hatching artemia on a daily basis is MANDATORY if you're going to be successful with them. After a couple weeks on enriched artemia, I started introducing cyclopeeze and frozen mysis before I added the artemia. Only once they were eating this heartily did I start weaning them off the artemia.
Adult brine shrimp don't work and have very little nutrition. You can try live tigger pods but are astronomically expensive because of the massive quantity these pipefish will eat. I have never seen them refuse newly hatched brine shrimp, it's just a pain to hatch them every day.
I have used this method with janns, banded, yellow banded, bluestripe, and dragonface pipefish. They all converted to frozen for me but I would never have been successful without the artemia. So BEFORE you try again with another group of pipes, get started on your hatching brine shrimp skills!!! I recommend just start hatching them now. And any extra can go into your reef tank, corals love the stuff!
As a side note, I ended up separating them into 2 tanks. Pairs are VERY intolerant of others in the same tank. I lost one to a bacterial infection from a wound the pair had caused him. So If you have more than one, make sure you have available space to separate them.
I quarantined 4 of them in a cycled bare 15 gallon with just some PVC pipe for hiding places. To initiate feeding I started them on newly hatched LIVE baby brine shrimp. They ate this very greedily, as I assumed it had been a while since they ate. Hatching artemia on a daily basis is MANDATORY if you're going to be successful with them. After a couple weeks on enriched artemia, I started introducing cyclopeeze and frozen mysis before I added the artemia. Only once they were eating this heartily did I start weaning them off the artemia.
Adult brine shrimp don't work and have very little nutrition. You can try live tigger pods but are astronomically expensive because of the massive quantity these pipefish will eat. I have never seen them refuse newly hatched brine shrimp, it's just a pain to hatch them every day.
I have used this method with janns, banded, yellow banded, bluestripe, and dragonface pipefish. They all converted to frozen for me but I would never have been successful without the artemia. So BEFORE you try again with another group of pipes, get started on your hatching brine shrimp skills!!! I recommend just start hatching them now. And any extra can go into your reef tank, corals love the stuff!
As a side note, I ended up separating them into 2 tanks. Pairs are VERY intolerant of others in the same tank. I lost one to a bacterial infection from a wound the pair had caused him. So If you have more than one, make sure you have available space to separate them.
fishguy194
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I found neomycin the most effective antibiotic, but I would suspect that they're fighting. If two of them paired off, I would separate the pair from the third one and treat them.
