How the pipe fish hunt down their prey

[headbanger_jib]

target sighted

move in

the above hunt failed

this time our hunter is very cautious, to not stir the prey

gets closer

and closer

more close

successfully steals eggs from the heavy mother shrimp



ps : click on pics to enlarge

 

[the_deeb]

Awesome! Do they feed exclusively from the gravid shrimp or do you supplement their diet with something else?

 

[headbanger_jib]

Awesome! Do they feed exclusively from the gravid shrimp or do you supplement their diet with something else?

the shrimp are fed quality diet
and yes the pipes eat exclusively shrimp eggs right from the source

 

[gazelle]

interesting, i was thinking of how it would eat that huge shrimp but than realized it just ate the eggs

 

[Hoyo12]

interesting, i was thinking of how it would eat that huge shrimp but than realized it just ate the eggs

lol, x2. I was waiting to see this shrimp be torn apart or something.

 

[midnight]

very cool

 

[peewee]

very cool!

 

[AOmonsta]

Pipe fish huh, never heard of them before. Is there a section on the site about them. Yours looks really cool.

 

[Bogwoodbruce]

Very impressive

 

[Zoodiver]

Nice pics....


In the wild they feed on lots of small inverts aside from picking eggs off of larger species. Captive settings they will eat things like mysis and brine fairly quickly.