#pipe fish

[eddieintheocean]

any and all pictures of pipe fish just look like this

[danskjavlarna]

Source details and larger version.

My modest collection of vintage seahorses is swimming along.

[eddieintheocean]

here are some of the scans from "The Observer's Guide of Sea Fishes" by A. Laurence Wells (1959)

i some how feel like the greenland shark drawing isnt. completely accurate. just a hunch

[animalfacthub]

Alligator Pipefish!

Pipefish area a relative to the seahorse

This particular species is the alligator pipefish, often live in sea grass as a way to stay hidden 

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📷1: “Syngnathoides biaculeatus, Nagoya Acuario.jpg” by opencage on Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 2.5)

📷2: “Syngnathoides biaculeatus, acuario.jpg” by opencage on Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 2.5)

📷3: “Alligator pipefish” by Brian Gratwicke on Flickr (CC BY 2.0)

[can-of-pringles]

I FOUND REAL LIFE WORM ON A STRINGS!

These are called Pipe fishes and they're related to Seahorses

[pouchedrat]

Ok so as people know, I have a dwarf cuttlefish I hatched from an egg over the summer and I feed both live shrimp and f/t shrimp and krill to. My last shipment of live grass shrimp had a stowaway baby pipe fish in the bag with them!

I ordered some copepods but they won't be in until next week (weekend right now and winter shipping...), so I hatched baby brine shrimp for the little bum. He is so lively and eating the baby brine... I know it is bad food but it is temporary until copepods arrive Wednesday. Plus freshly hatched brine do still have their egg sacs. I will buy mysis shrimp when he is a little bigger. Those suckers are expensive and they're cannibals.

I guess if this dude lives, when my cuttlefish kicks the bucket (cuttles have a lifespan of only a year) he will be going into the 40 gallon tank as my new species-specific choice. Pipefish I guess live from 3-5 years or so depending on species so he will be with me for a while.

I guess getting a new mantis shrimp is out of the question then... Not until the pipe fish is gone. Unless I finally get that 120 gallon tank to make into saltwater. Then I'll totally just keep zoas and soft corals and mushrooms and a lone mantis shrimp... And be totally happy!

[nemfrog]

The pipe fish. The ocean world. 1872.