34gal Solana pipefish, goby cube

Originally Posted by skinz78

Right on Keith, how soon do you expect to add a critter to it and what is the first to add?

make sure to post pics when everything's in and "established"...hopefully in a few more weeks! nice tank!

Keith I am not sure how to tell them apart. Maybe it is something as easy as one comes from place x and the other comes from place y.

yeah I'm not sure either.

Nice tank. I like how you did the rock work. I have always wanted to try a pipefish. How hard are they to take care of?

Originally Posted by ento_reefer

Nice tank. I like how you did the rock work. I have always wanted to try a pipefish. How hard are they to take care of?

I have one, not bad at all, took awhile to get him to eat but target feed him mysis shrimp and he'll eat. Best not to be with any other real agressive eating fish so it get something, but pretty cool to watch.

Bill you got any pic's of yours?

I really want to do some pipefish with my Mandarins. Do you think a mp10 would be too much flow for them? I like the dragonface

I've seen dragon face in a really high flow SPS tank, they seemed to do well. I think because they crawl on the bottom, they aren't as susceptible to higher flow.

Ill have to find out how to sex them...Maybe ill give breeding them a go.

Originally Posted by skinz78

Bill you got any pic's of yours?

No but I can get some tonight. when I get home from work.

Heres my needle fish, pipefish what ever you want to call it. Pretty cool but he's gotta be target feed or he lacks in the eating department. He must be eating ok cause he has grown some.

Right on, they look too creepy for me.

I think I might have to try one in the new tank. Billrob, does yours eat pods like a mandarine? Do they need a real mature tank?

Originally Posted by ento_reefer

I think I might have to try one in the new tank. Billrob, does yours eat pods like a mandarine? Do they need a real mature tank?

Ellen he's actually in my quarentine tank and very docile , I feed him mysis shrimp but target feed him to make sure he gets something. I got him down the beach about a month ago when I went down for hermit crabs ,snails and ghost shrimp.

Originally Posted by D3monic

I really want to do some pipefish with my Mandarins. Do you think a mp10 would be too much flow for them? I like the dragonface

A good thing about that pump is you can dial it down if needed.

Originally Posted by billrob71

Ellen he's actually in my quarentine tank and very docile , I feed him mysis shrimp but target feed him to make sure he gets something. I got him down the beach about a month ago when I went down for hermit crabs ,snails and ghost shrimp.

Bill, thats a local fish? Where did you get it?

Originally Posted by chris&barb

Bill, thats a local fish? Where did you get it?

Yes a local fish.
Lewis (Cape May Lewis pier) Back in August.

I had no idea they were in the bay. Ive caught seahorses in crab pots there before but never even thought pipefish would be there.

Very cool, you should take some pic's of when you go gathering.

A ways back a lady brought me a orange gorgoninian on a rock that was bright orange. It lasted a pretty good while

Me and my son went down, There was suppose to be a DRC trip but never did happen.

Awesome pictures, i cant wait until my tanks aged enough to add pipes

anyhoo its been almost a week since adding the first inhabitants,

2 Paguristes cadenati (scarlet reef hermit)
1 Cilbanarius tricolor (blue leg hermit) the lady that bagged them grabed the wrong one and i forgot to check... sweet... a $.99 hermet for $4 (oh well this guys going in the QT tank when i get it built)
1 Echinometra la****er (short spine urchin)
and a small rock with some Zoanthids on it. (zoa eating nudibranch included and irradicated)

all are doing well and have passed the test of if the tanks ready or not.

All the water tests are coming back good, ecept phosphates, i think my RODI filter is leaching phosphates or my salt mix has some in it. i tend to lean twards the RODI system and will be buying new filters for it anyway because its time, in fact... i should have bought new filters for it probally a month ago.

anyhoo the LFS was getting in a new shippment of stuff and i gave them a list of fish i would like so im going to go and check out what they have and probally come home with something, maybe another zoa frag, and a Amblygobius rainfordi (Court Jester Goby, Rainford's Goby) if they have one.