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My wife just had surgery for two cysts on her back. She was in a lot of pain and the five hour surgery went well. Now she has two titanium ground rods in her lower spine. It could have been worse, she doesn't have Pop Eye or anything. Today I visited her in the hospital. She is in a large...

The last time I went away my pipefish were fine, I think they were glad to get rid of me. But those were bluestripes and they are better at hunting pods. The three I have now may be in trouble if I leave as my tank sitter is not going to hatch brine shrimp or deal with worms. I may just have...

These are two multi banded and one dragon face pipefish eating new born brine shrimp that they get a few times a day. Video Here are stills of them

Unfortunately for the fast growing Montipora, the torch corals grow faster and sting them to death very quickly. Oh Well he should have grown the other way.

The tank now has 3 pipefish in it. I can't find the pair of bluestripes but I am fairly certain the Korilia powerhead ate them before I found the problem and corrected it. Now that that is fixed, I would like to get another pair of them. I doubled my production of new born brine shrimp because...

OK, well if there is nothing on, you can watch this video of my pipefish eating newborn brine shrimp. Then when you get tired of that, you can watch my dragon faced pipefish eating the same thing Then if there is still nothing on, you can watch my 2 pistol shrimp. Or just watch them all...

This is something I have not seen before with pipefish. The copperband seeks out this pipefish and they stay together while the pipefish inspects and eats irritations or maybe parasites that I can't see off the copperband. They have been together for 15 minutes so far and the copperband seems...

Thanks, I am trying like crazy to get some more, but no one has them and I am surrounded by LFSs

I can't believe how stupid I am. Well, yes I can. I have been having a problem losing pipefish for a long time and I couldn't figure out why. But I did now and I should have realized it which is driving me crazy because I usually see these potential problems. The problem started a couple of...

I actually have encountered them (and ate them) many times. My Dad used to sell them live in our sea food fish market. They are very common here in New York especially in very shallow water. They are scavengers and will eat anything. Very slimy creature.

Yeah, he's a real killer. :nervous The little sneak got sucked up in one of these as I was taking a little water out of his container, then he wouldn't come out, but I think he came out later when I used that in my reef. He thinks he is smarter than me. OK, so I guess he is. But they spawn...

I was on my boat today in the Long Island Sound and a member on here was there with me collecting grass shrimp next to my boat. He also collected this, which I studied when I got him home and I think he in an elver or baby eel. They grow to about 4' long. I was studying him in a small tank...

It's just a plastic container with a fine mesh on top. There is a tube going to the surface with a funnel on it to load the new born shrimp. The shrimp try to get out through the mesh and the fish eat them. I also patented a larger version for adult shrimp...

There is a scooter dragonette and a mandarin.

This is a multibanded pipefish eating newborn brine shrimp that escaped from the feeder. This is a dragon faced pipefish eating new born brine. A bluestripe pipefish comes over the the feeder eventually

Someone asked me these questions on another forum but I am tired of typing so I am also putting it here. Make believe someone asked me this. Like many things in this hobby, I don't think of that as a problem but just something you need to do to keep such a fish. There is no competition...

Those bananafish seem to be spawning. I can't see one of them to well as she is in the nest (I think) The other one follows her in there all day. Notice how fat she is compared to the last shot of her And I just got this guy today. Very cool. He gets along great with this guy,

I quit keeping Emu's. I never had one but if I did, it would be time to quit.

I think the LFS that I go to the most is going to go out of business. They raised their electric bill by 40% and I think that will push them over the edge. If that happens I have to travel about 3 times farther to get blackworms so I will have to build a much larger worm keeper so I don't have...

My tank is running well, everybody is happy, the pair of pistol shrimp are still digging up the entire tank and toppling rocks, the clown gobies are still spawning and killing the acropora's, the fireclown's are still fighting/spawning and both of them hate the copperband but he doesn't care and...