Thank you very much for this write up. I myself am on a mission to breed pipefish. Species that interest me are Doryrhamphus pessuliferus, Aeoliscus strigatus and not quite as interesting to me Doryrhamphus dactylophorus currently I have a pair of Doryrhamphus pessuliferus and hope to obtain several more with at least a trio of Aeoliscus strigatus in the very near future. If you have any info on Aeoliscus strigatus I would be very interested in hearing it. There seems to be very little available on the net.
Also (I know, I know as if I didnt have enough questions) Can you identify this species of pipe?
It was sold to me as Corythoichthys
sp. but the head structure looks different to me.