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Re: Breeding Journal, Species:Corythoichthys haematopterus (Western Pacific) or intestinalis (Indonesian)
Saturday, April 19, 2014 6:29 PM
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I think the red one is hematopterus. Today I introduced frozen cyclopeze. I thawed it in a little of their tank water and put some near the sand with a transfer pipet. The cyclopeze instantly rose up in the water column, suspending itself. The pipefishes responded immediately by swimming into body of water, and snicking at invisible food particles. I think we have feeding!. If so, that is awesome, as I can keep frozen cyclopeze in stock and not run out of live copepods for them. I can get more pipes as well, so increasing my chances of having one male and one female! Happy, I am.
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Re: Breeding Journal, Species:Corythoichthys haematopterus (Western Pacific) or intestinalis (Indonesian)
Saturday, April 19, 2014 6:36 PM
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duplicate.
check out Kathy's Clowns, llc website: http://kathysclowns.com Captive bred clownfish and more (Wholesale to the trade.)
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Re: Breeding Journal, Species:Corythoichthys haematopterus (Western Pacific) or intestinalis (Indonesian)
Tuesday, May 13, 2014 11:37 PM
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Since the last post, I bought anothe larger pipefish, and it died within 2 days, and the following week I bought 3 more, of which 2 died within a week. So I am down to the 3 originals, and one smaller newish one. Actually, I don't have much hope for the smaller newish one. When the others are swimming around snicking, this one pretty much stays put. I've discovered that they like rotifers. Since I always have a lot of them, it is now a daily feed. They get rotifers in the morning when I am pressed for time, and copepods of various types in the evening. They get mostly Parvocalanus, and sometimes they get tigriopus, tisbe, or tangerine. I have a small culture of Pseudodiaptimus, but there is not enough to feed out. The problem with ordering pods from Algagen, is that they arrive in a beautiful "store shelf ready" retail bottle with nice tight cap and about 5 ml of air at the top. After a 2 day shipment without food or air, these things arrive at their destination mostly dead. Why can't they ship these things like the live critters they are? Sorry for the rant. I do love Algagen, just getting tired of buying dead copepods. :-( It's taken me two weeks to get the precious few Pseudos that survived to mate and reproduce so I have maybe 50 pods in culture at the moment. Anyway, the pipefishes seem to be doing well, the ones that didn't die, that is.
check out Kathy's Clowns, llc website: http://kathysclowns.com Captive bred clownfish and more (Wholesale to the trade.)
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Re: Breeding Journal, Species:Corythoichthys haematopterus (Western Pacific) or intestinalis (Indonesian)
Tuesday, May 13, 2014 11:42 PM
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Have you fed nhbbs or enriched bbs? And I agree about the Algagen pods...the packaging is not ideal :/
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Re: Breeding Journal, Species:Corythoichthys haematopterus (Western Pacific) or intestinalis (Indonesian)
Wednesday, May 14, 2014 7:45 AM
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I have fed NHBB occasionally, but they don't seem that interested.
check out Kathy's Clowns, llc website: http://kathysclowns.com Captive bred clownfish and more (Wholesale to the trade.)
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Re: Breeding Journal, Species:Corythoichthys haematopterus (Western Pacific) or intestinalis (Indonesian)
Thursday, August 28, 2014 9:34 PM
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On Tuesday I received 2 pairs of DF pipefishes from DRs F &S ! They are beautiful, and in quarantine now. They are a slightly different species, so I'll have to start a new report on them.
check out Kathy's Clowns, llc website: http://kathysclowns.com Captive bred clownfish and more (Wholesale to the trade.)
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