Rainbow Belly Pipefish?
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Five were lost in transit, but the rest look okay. Now we wait and see how well they adapt!
My apologies. I got the notification for the reply, and decided to respond after I got photos of them. But then totally forgot about it!
However, I did my water changes yesterday and took a few photos after I fed them baby brine shrimp. They're doing great! I ordered 40 and lost about 10 total during shipping (5), or soon after because of stress (about 5), but the rest seem to be doing just fine! These photos are from one of the three tanks I put them in for quarantine. The other two tanks don't have plants at the moment, and I found hydra in one tank that I'm treating for now. I removed all except two so I could see if the medication (fenbendazole) has any effect on the pipefish. So far I haven't seen stress or deaths, and it has been two days.
So here are the three decent photos I grabbed! First and third are two very outgoing females. They're always the ones out and about when I watch them. The second photo is a male and his eye *seems* messed up in the photo, but I think it's just a baby brine shrimp closer to the camera that just got in the perfect spot to blur his eye. You can see the little kite-shaped bodies of them all around him.
However, I did my water changes yesterday and took a few photos after I fed them baby brine shrimp. They're doing great! I ordered 40 and lost about 10 total during shipping (5), or soon after because of stress (about 5), but the rest seem to be doing just fine! These photos are from one of the three tanks I put them in for quarantine. The other two tanks don't have plants at the moment, and I found hydra in one tank that I'm treating for now. I removed all except two so I could see if the medication (fenbendazole) has any effect on the pipefish. So far I haven't seen stress or deaths, and it has been two days.
So here are the three decent photos I grabbed! First and third are two very outgoing females. They're always the ones out and about when I watch them. The second photo is a male and his eye *seems* messed up in the photo, but I think it's just a baby brine shrimp closer to the camera that just got in the perfect spot to blur his eye. You can see the little kite-shaped bodies of them all around him.
This tank was actually used for discus breeding just prior to me getting these guys. I have about 9 of those remaining (various blues) and moved them to a 55G grow-out tank, and decided to use this as one of the quarantine tanks for the rainbow bellied.
I'm cycling a 120G and a 300G to move other discus into, and then the rainbow-bellies will get a 75G with tons of neo shrimp and snails.
I'm cycling a 120G and a 300G to move other discus into, and then the rainbow-bellies will get a 75G with tons of neo shrimp and snails.
