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    Pipefish with eggs

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    What should i do, i have just discovered eggs on my pipefish.
    If anyone has any experience in breeding pipefish any advice is welcome.
    It happened out of the blue, i was not trying to breed them and dont realy know what to do???
    Please help me!

    Regards Klaus

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    Re: Pipefish with eggs

    it should be Doryichthys heterosoma

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    Re: Pipefish with eggs

    Not much information to go by on the web, especially for the species you mentioned. I think you have to wait for the gestation period to be over, before the father? releases the fry. From this thread:

    http://www.franksaquarium.com/phpBB/...b1dea19a7dc2cf

    Get ready to have some newly hatched BBS on standby, once the fry hatch. I guess, just treat them how you would treat seahorse fry. According to another search result, someone in Germany is breeding another Doryichthys species.
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    Re: Pipefish with eggs

    Thanks, nice link

    Here is a few clips of my male with eggs
    YouTube- Doryichthys heterosoma best shot.avi
    YouTube- Doryichthys heterosoma eggs.avi

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    Re: Pipefish with eggs

    not super sharp but if you know what you are looking fore, you can see the eggs

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    Re: Pipefish with eggs

    Nice videos kac. I can see the eggs. They're being held by folds of skin on the male's belly right?
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    Re: Pipefish with eggs

    yes, they have not hatched yet but it will probably happen within the next 2 days
    heres is a better pic.
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    Re: Pipefish with eggs

    Today the eggs are hatched and i have seen a few free swimming pipefish, i have have started with infussoria (beer slippers) and i will probably remove a few of them to a smaller tank.

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    Re: Pipefish with eggs

    Congratulations kac. Try taking some close-up shots of the fry.

    Perhaps next time you can give the sticklebacks? of the genus Indostoma a try. They are very much similar in behaviour to the pipefish. I had a female once, full of eggs, but she died before there was even a spawning.
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    Re: Pipefish with eggs

    Thanks

    Tried to get the stickleback but apperently to no avail, it was on the import list and it was ordered, but it never came :-(

    I know my fish pusher on a personal level and if it is on an import list he will order it :-)
    He also helped me to take these pictures, they are not super but it was the best we could do :-/
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    Re: Pipefish with eggs

    Geez they're really tiny kac. Are you feeding them with infusorians first?
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