Dragon Face Pipefish?

[thanhreef]

For first time, my wife likes my tank. It means I'd probably be in trouble :thumbs:. She loves to have a pair of Dragon Face Pipefish in the tank. I have no idea about this fish. It looks like snake... No way I am going to put snake in the tank. After researching and reading, I am sort of like them too.

Do you have experiences with these fish?

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[cedzaquaddiction]

I believe the care for them is similar to seahorses. Train them to eat mysis, or stock up on pods.

Low flow tank with peaceful tankmates. They are slow swimmers, so can't take much competition for food as faster swimmers will eat the food before the pipefish can get to it...

Pretty cool fish!!!

 

[containerman1]

vista;885310 wrote: For first time, my wife likes my tank. It means I'd probably be in trouble :thumbs:. She loves to have a pair of Dragon Face Pipefish in the tank. I have no idea about this fish. It looks like snake... No way I am going to put snake in the tank. After researching and reading, I am sort of like them too.

Do you have experiences with these fish?

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I have a pair and I bought them from the same site your pic. is off of and they have been doing great. I guess I have had them for about 6 mth. Just make sure you have a good pod population and I feed mine Numar every couple days. I just break a little piece and let it thaw and I have a long feeder tube I just give it a squirt near them and that's it. They are similar to sea horses,
Mine will swim across the bottom and in the flow just fine. They like to be in pairs. I added mine in the tank at night when the other fish were sleeping and gave them a chance to find a spot while not being chased around. They really are pretty cool to watch. :thumbs:

 

[thanhreef]

Thank you very much for your advice.

Tank is 110 gal. The 2/3 from top of tank is strong flow ((2 MP40w). Do you think they're survived with my fishes below?

Yellow Tang
Small Blue Tang
Trio Flame Wrasse
Leopard Wrasse
A pair of Bartlett's Anthias
Bicolor Anthias
Yellow Candy Hogfish
A big pair of snowscasso

 

[thanhreef]

aquaculture;885322 wrote: The dragon face pipefish are compatible with your fish list, but remember, all fish have different temperments. Mine was in my tank with blue hippo tang, (2) black & white clowns, Sunburst Anthia, Leopard wrasse, Large Foxface (about 6-8"), copperband butterfly, starry blenny, and a purple firefish...alot of fish for a 40 breeder, I know, but the tank has a Bubble King Mini 200 on it and keeps the tank clean, and I do a 5-10 gallon WC every 5 days, so everything stays healthy....just feed Nutramar Ova like one of the other posters said, and all should be well.:thumbs:

Edit: HTH

Thank you.

 

[thanhreef]

barry_keith;885389 wrote: Tey are super cool fish! I love watching them swim. I keep a pair in my 150, with several feisty tank mates, and quite a lot of flow. Four wrasse, squarback anthias, hippo tang, springeri dottyback, dwarf moray, pair of clowns, and a Midas Blenny. No one bothers them at all. They do great in my reef. I'm lucky both mine eat frozen mysid and cyclop eeze.

Awesome. I am going to order a pair from LFS. Thank you

 

[ralph atl]

I had a pair for a number of years with great success....they do not do well with stinging corals.....they perch and are slow moving....

 

[jdavid]

leveldrummer;885454 wrote: What do you mean stinging corals?

frogspawn, hammer, chalice, acan... etc
they like sps and gorgonians

 

[ralph atl]

JDavid;885470 wrote: frogspawn, hammer, chalice, acan... etc
they like sps and gorgonians

good answer! :up:

 

[jdavid]

They should chance the name to dragonface awesome fish. Because this is an awesome fish.