Dragonfaced Pipefish

[dputt88]

a big shout out to Reef Solutions for getting these in! i have been waiting for these things for many months now, ive had a tank setup just for them. and i knew these would be hard to get, but im really excited to finally have them.

[jimsflies]

Wow cool...looking forward to reading more about your setup.

[dputt88]

So let me start by saying they have become very comfortable their new home.

So I removed the tradish style baby brine shrimp feeder and came up with a clever idea .

So since my rock work is a pile of live rubble surrounded by 3 large pieces of lace rock, i took a piece of ridgid tubing a and bent it so it lead s from the top corner of the tank down to the bottom, along the seam then turns in toward the middle then faces up. I know, sounds confusing. But when I inject bbs into the tubing they get injected into the middle of the rock work and can hang out in f low flow caves until they are eaten.

This is better then having some feeding station that looks ugly and is hidden in the back, cuz this setup is entirely under gavel.

[MizTanks]

Sounds like a pretty neat idea :) Would love to see more pics!

[dputt88]

Well here's a video of them eating. Needless to say my feeder worked perfect, it allows the bbs to hide in the ruble maze and slowly disperse into the open water where they get picked off by these crazy guys. This video was taken 2 hours after i injected a small trial amount of bbs into the feeder, and you can see they are still finding them swimming around.

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[dputt88]

an update. only one remains. the other did becaome ill and die. i knew they were prone to disease so it didnt surprise me all that much. any ways all of my cultures allow me to raise more than enough pods for him, they are all 5-6 gal cultures of rotifers, and three species of copepod, one of them being tigger pods. ill have to post a new pic soon

[MizTanks]

So sorry for your loss dputt :(

[jasper]

Good luck in your endeavour, look forward to your updates

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[dputt88]

thanks, heres a video of the pipe eating its daily pods

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