Hey John , what a coincidence! I've bee playing around with keeping a few fw pipes lately myself. The longnose pipes featured in the video are one of the more delicate species I've worked with, and very finicky eaters. Mine have generally only accepted newly hatched brine and occasionally daphnia. My E. ansorgii are similar, but will also eat chopped live blackworms or grindal worms. Awesome fish, but be prepared to always be culturing live foods for them!
At the 1:50 mark, doesn't the word equestrian relate to horses? I think the word he was looking for was estuarine lol. Other than that, informative video! Freshwater pipes are on the top of my list for species that I want to care for.
Great looking fish! I would imagine they like relatively calm water and non-aggressive tank mates? Did they give you any tips for successful breeding in captivity? Very cool! Thanks for the info.
I've been looking for more information about this fish. My LFS has been selling it as "ánguila caballito" which would be "little horse eel" in english but I couldn't find any information with that name. Thanks for the video!
Not really. I’ve seen them singularly in very few tanks but they need a constant supply of food and fish even like tetras would eat all their food. They also only eat live I’ve heard. You usually do a pair tho. I think you can keep them with Corys, Otocinclus and Plecos maybe some guppies and small fish but it will be work
I think these pipefish need a much bigger tank in general. They constantly need food and a bigger tank offers water stability and places where food can hide and reproduce.
Not sure why changing salinity seemed like a bad idea. Where I am from they move from salt, to brackish, into fresh on a daily or almost daily basis. They are cool, amazing little creatures. The thing that worries me, like yourself, is providing adequate live food, I would hate to be responsible for the death of one.
Asher, even peaceful tankmates will usually eat all their food before they have a chance to get any. I've kept plecos, corydoras and otocinclus with mine but I don't think anything else would work well.
I knew pipefish were cousins to seahorses, but I never realized that meant they were equestrian! 😂@1:50
Hey John , what a coincidence! I've bee playing around with keeping a few fw pipes lately myself. The longnose pipes featured in the video are one of the more delicate species I've worked with, and very finicky eaters. Mine have generally only accepted newly hatched brine and occasionally daphnia. My E. ansorgii are similar, but will also eat chopped live blackworms or grindal worms. Awesome fish, but be prepared to always be culturing live foods for them!
I love me some pipefish, didn't realize there was freshwater ones.
At the 1:50 mark, doesn't the word equestrian relate to horses? I think the word he was looking for was estuarine lol. Other than that, informative video! Freshwater pipes are on the top of my list for species that I want to care for.
Alex Hawkins Or maybe he meant euryhaline?
Would daphnia be a good alternative to feed them? Thanks!
I would think so, yes.
So that is pipe fish, i caught many of them when i was a kid theres color orange and black. We called it riverhorse lol.
Great looking fish! I would imagine they like relatively calm water and non-aggressive tank mates? Did they give you any tips for successful breeding in captivity? Very cool! Thanks for the info.
+Prime Time Aquatics No info on breeding :(. Non aggressive tank mates for sure.
I've been looking for more information about this fish. My LFS has been selling it as "ánguila caballito" which would be "little horse eel" in english but I couldn't find any information with that name. Thanks for the video!
Are any fit for cooler temperatures
Ugh! The beak is too cute! My face is going to melt off!
Nice are pipe fishes hardy fishes?
At like 1:58, you can see a loach latching onto a Goldfish and consuming its slime coat. This is why I am scared of sucker feeders.
Freshwater pipefish compatible in a 55-gallon aquarium and can live alone with other tank mates?
Not really. I’ve seen them singularly in very few tanks but they need a constant supply of food and fish even like tetras would eat all their food. They also only eat live I’ve heard. You usually do a pair tho. I think you can keep them with Corys, Otocinclus and Plecos maybe some guppies and small fish but it will be work
I have been looking for a long time, Were Could you get these fish
Can the expert tell what kind it is. Is it de martensii? Because I thought the martensii is more ground orientated and more brown colored.
I think these pipefish need a much bigger tank in general. They constantly need food and a bigger tank offers water stability and places where food can hide and reproduce.
Do you know of anywhere they can ship them to you
could the pipes compatible with Kilifishes?
Looks like a North American pipefish (salt/brackish) they turn that color when put in freshwater..
Live food requirement is a deal breaker to me.
Changing salinity every week seems like a bad idea...
Clint Parsons Daphia Is a good sub, once they get used to it, theyll take it all the time.
Not sure why changing salinity seemed like a bad idea. Where I am from they move from salt, to brackish, into fresh on a daily or almost daily basis. They are cool, amazing little creatures. The thing that worries me, like yourself, is providing adequate live food, I would hate to be responsible for the death of one.
They love to eat daphnia moena and tubifex worms
Mostly they found where shrimps were in natural habitat so they are deadly love to eat shrimps eggs
pricing?
+Asher Ekstein Live Aquaria listed it for about $30
Thanks do you think they will do well in a community planted aquarium?
Asher, even peaceful tankmates will usually eat all their food before they have a chance to get any. I've kept plecos, corydoras and otocinclus with mine but I don't think anything else would work well.
Michael Tuccinardi Thanks.
Equestrian?? Thats a horseback riding term. Estuary is word you were looking for
You are so right! I’m sure it was a slip of the tongue. I grew up with horses, and I never noticed that slip!
Some pipefish RIDE HORSES?!?!???!?!? 1:51
Could he mean equidromous?
Pipefish eat guppy???
No audio??
do check me hand feed my Black Ghost Knife fish. :)