Pipe Fish

i recentley purchased a banded pipe fish and the store told me to feed it brine shrimp is this right??

 

i would assume they would eat the basic foods, but brines shrimp are low nutrition so use a vitamin dip if you use brine shrimp.

they need a species tank because the eat slowly like seahorse, well thats what i have read

 

it is in a species tank i have that a scooter blenny a watchman oby and by this weekend a male and female seahorse i was told they would all be fine toether i also have a baby clownfish in theyre because its a present for my cousin and if he went into my other tank hed et ripped apart so i hope noone has a problem with the fish ive selected for the sehorses forward slash pipefish

 

the only thing I can warn you about with the selection of fish is the clowns. Seahorses and pipefish are sooo slow at eating that they can often times starve due to this slowness. I would not think that the scooter blenny would be bad with them...IMO would do well to eat the extra food. Watchmen I dont know...probably be ok.

Like said above...make sure you get brine shrimp that is soaked in HUFA's and other vitamins. Also before you get seahorses make sure the pipe is eating. Have the store show you the seahorses eating. They can be very difficult to get on non-live food. (pipes are even harder in my experience). Have a supply of brine shrimp eggs to hatch in case they stop eating...happens sometimes for no reason

 

I am not even sure that pipefish will eat brine shrimp. Maybe some types will but a lot of them have such small mouths(ie dragonface pipefish) that they cant eat brine. Mysis maybe and i know some eat pods. But im not sure about brine shrimp. maybe baby brine

 

i have a refugium set up with copepods and the seahorses are captive bread and eat frozen mysis already checked with em and the clown will ony eat pellets no frozen food idk why but hes not staying any way

 

I'm fairly certain that brine shrimp are smaller than mysis in my experience with buying frozen foods. I've had no experience with pipefish, but they are REALLY cool.

 

I dont think that pipefish will eat brine. I know they eat copapods, so with the seahorses you will need to be stocked. its alot to have in one tank

 

yea i got that covered lol can pipfish and seahorses get ick?