Good-bye pipefish

[naesco]

Originally Posted by Samw

http://reefkeeping.com/issues/2003-04/hcs3/index.php

"Care of pipefish is rather simple. When researched and assembled correctly, a pipefish aquarium can be remarkably fulfilling with little additional effort from the hobbyist. "

Sam, with, respect, I think in the context of this discussion, the following quote from the that same article would have been more appropriate and the conclusion you posted is misleading. They are not easy fish to keep.

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Ensuring the proper size food, and that enough of it reaches the pipefish is another major concern. Thankfully, hobbyists are becoming more informed on this important detail, and as such many ill-prepared hobbyists have rightfully avoided this family.

The artical you posted first details in specific terms the needs, which most hobbyist cannot meet and only than comes to the conclusion you posted

Robert Fenner, a noted author states as follows
:As for Pipefishes, they're survivability is, if anything, even more dismal than wild-collected seahorses. They should only be attempted by folks in the know and of dead earnest. Reef-type set-ups with few or no competing fish tankmates are best for providing conditions conducive to their care. Various banded pipefishes, in the genera Dunckerocampus and Doryrhamphus are available from time to time mostly out of the Indo-Pacific. The creeping Pipefishes of the genus Corythoichthys are probably the most popular, best-lived forms, some known to have lived for months in well-established reef tanks. Some of the temperate species of Syngnathus, likewise have been kept and bred in aquarium confinement, as "species-tanks" by themselves.:

Thank you for posting the artical of pipefish.