- Location
- Wallington, NJ
whered you get these pipefish from?
I love pipefish
- Thread starter Paul B
- Start date
- Location
- Baiting Hollow Long Island NY
JonnyJ that is a cool looking pipefish. For some reason I don't have a lot of luck with banded pipefish and I have had about 5 of them. Yours looks great.
My favorite are bluestripes and they live their normal lifespan of about 3 or 4 years and spawn the entire time. I should get a Janss pipefish in a few days as the wholesaler doesn't have one this week, but he ordered one for me.
Aquadicted, you can get pipefish anyplace. Fishtown, not far from you has a couple of them and that is where I got the dragon pipefish.
Pipefish are the same family as seahorses and they are reefsafe. Some eat frozen foods but I would not rely on that as seahorses and pipefish don't have a stomach, just a short tube so they can't store food and need to eat tiny portions all day. That is how they were designed to eat and they don't care to change to suit our schedules. They do better in a more mature, not to sterile tank and live foods are prefered if you want to keep them for their entire normal lifespan which is what we should strive for with all our fish. Keeping any fish one or two years is a failure as all fish live much longer than that.
My favorite are bluestripes and they live their normal lifespan of about 3 or 4 years and spawn the entire time. I should get a Janss pipefish in a few days as the wholesaler doesn't have one this week, but he ordered one for me.
Aquadicted, you can get pipefish anyplace. Fishtown, not far from you has a couple of them and that is where I got the dragon pipefish.
Pipefish are the same family as seahorses and they are reefsafe. Some eat frozen foods but I would not rely on that as seahorses and pipefish don't have a stomach, just a short tube so they can't store food and need to eat tiny portions all day. That is how they were designed to eat and they don't care to change to suit our schedules. They do better in a more mature, not to sterile tank and live foods are prefered if you want to keep them for their entire normal lifespan which is what we should strive for with all our fish. Keeping any fish one or two years is a failure as all fish live much longer than that.
- Location
- Baiting Hollow Long Island NY
Little video of my dragon pipefish having lunch
- Location
- Deer Park,Long Island,11729
Very cool 
- Location
- Wallington, NJ
Little video of my dragon pipefish having lunch
nice! baby brine? it really needs that small a diet? I could've sworn they were not that small themselves.
- Location
- Baiting Hollow Long Island NY
That mouth is tiny and a new born brine shrimp is about the only thing they could swallow.
He hunts pods all day which are much smaller than a new born brine shrimp
He hunts pods all day which are much smaller than a new born brine shrimp
Sponsor Reefs
We're a FREE website, and we exist because of hobbyists like YOU who help us run this community.
Click here to sponsor $10:
