a behaviour I had yet seen in my pipefish.
I would say I am a middle experienced level fish keeper, and with some knowledge rather than experience, I have been able to keep my blue stripe pipefish alive (knock on wood), happy, and very fat for 4+ months in my main system. Originally I built them their own hideaway in a HOB refugium complete with lots of macro, lots of pods and they did OK. Til one day they both "prison breaked" and entered the main system. Now they're fatter than ever and I don't directly feed them anything. They just live off whats happening in the main and no one in my tank bothers them. They even love playing in the current of my koralia 3 for some reason.
Heres the behavior though that I was wondering if anyone has experienced...
Has anyone noticed their bluestriped's cleaning other fish??? I looked in my tank this evening and both the male and female were cleaning the sides of my foxface in the open water column of my tank. at first I thought they were biting him or something like that, but the foxface was dorsal fin down and sitting there accepting it.
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11-07-2008, 04:23 AM
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