Pipefish? I'm about to have an empty tank...
I've got a 55 gallon that the current resident (clown trigger) is outgrowing. I really want to do something different with it when I buy the new tank for the trigger. I've researched octopi, sea dragons (PRICEY!), cuttlefish and many other oddballs, all seem to have their pros and cons. But pipefish and those orange spotted filefish really seem like a fun project. And catch my eye like few others...
The tank is healthy and mature (six years old), the only issue will be slowing the return pump's rate (easy enough to get a smaller return).
I have so many questions I don't know where to start... but I'll try.
1) Do any of you here have experience with pipes? Files?
2) Can they be kept with mandarins, seahorses, or other slow feeders? The idea of that tank containing pipefish and (hopefully) a filefish could keep me enthusiastic for ages.
3) Can pipes be weaned onto frozen foods?
4) Are they fun?!? By that I mean, are they reasonably showy, out in front often, any responsive behaviours?
5) Will they be like my seahorses, which were eating frozen food great until I fed them live a few times and then went Ghandi on me?
6) Is breeding seahorses a project you'd try with an empty 55, and simply scrap this idea?
7) Just for fun, if you guys moved a fish from a mature drilled 55 with great filtration, what would you do?
Thanks in advance!:up: