Banded pipefish in seagrass tank feeding help

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Many pipe fish must have small particle foods due to their mouth sizes so what works for an alligator pipe doesn't always work for a banded pipe fish.
You may be able to shave mysis small enough for a banded to eat but it may not then recognize it as food.

Brine shrimp from GSL cysts have higher protein levels than most food you feed to your tanks and can be enriched very simply to get excellent huffa levels (fatty acids) to replace the levels lost as the egg sack is consumed.
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Do you have the D. pessuliferus or the dactyliophorus? The dactyliophurus seem to adapt readily to home aquariums. The pessuliferus is much harder to get to eat frozen, is usually much more shy and overall doesn't thrive as well. They are actually pretty good swimmers, hence their common moniker of "reef pipefish". They can handle the flow.

You will never culture enough adult brineshrimp to sustain them on 100% brine. They can eat a kazillion of them a day. BBS are highly nutritious, but you'll ruin your tank in quick order if you pour in enough on a daily basis to sustain them. I'm hoping you have the dactyliophorus. They'll also eat the eggs from a berried ghost shrimp. They pick them right off! If the shrimp are small enough, they will strike at them until they are pulverized and suck them in. Our ate regular frozen mysis after awhile.

 

I have the dacty whatever thing. I will try and find some cyclopeeze this weekend because i know they love that. I had a LFS that sold it by more house but they closed down. Right now I have some brine shrimp growing up but they are only like a week and a half old

 

It is in a tank with a breeding pair of neon gobies. Could these guys be intimidating it so it doesn't eat. I didn't think so but i guess you never know. Luckily I have plenty of amphipods so it should have enough food for another week or two

 

What size tank is it in?

 

20 gallon long

 

Are you providing pods?

 

no but i know there is plenty i see a lot every night and i seeded it 6 months ago. there is some scuds in there as well

 

If you think there's enough, then you should be fine.