Pipefish mating

The focus of my research is brood reduction in the broad-nosed pipefish (Syngnathus typhle)... www.zoologi.gu.se/personal/sagebakken_gry/

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• pipefish
• zoology
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• mating
• brood reduction
• broad-nosed pipefish
• gry sagebakken

[cleedivine]

Very Interesting video. I just purchased two dragon face pipefish(check out my video). Have you compared your study of broad nosed pipefish with any other pipefish that originate from tropical environments?

Also, how long do your mated pairs stay together before they find a new mate?

[naturvetenskap09]

@cleedivine Hi. I have not compared my pipefish with any tropical species. Also, the pipefish I am working on do not have any long term pair bonding. They pretty much mate and leave each other. So, each female mate with several males, and each male mate with several females often within one brooding cycle. /Gry Sagebakken, Department of Zoology, University of Gothenburg

[naturvetenskap09]

Hi

I am feeding them artemia - frozen and live.

I also give them live copepods, sand shrimps etc. that I trawl from the bay I took the pipefish from.

Good luck with your pipefish.

Regards, Gry Sagebakken, PhD student at the Department of Zoology, University of Gothenburg

[naturvetenskap09]

This pipefish species can be from near black to pale grey, light green and brown. However, I am not sure what species you have found, since there is quite a few pipefish species and fish species that are long and thin. I hope you found the answer helpful. Regards, Gry Sagebakken, PhD student at the Department of Zoology, University of Gothenburg

[fishguycam]

i caught two Gulf/Freshwater Pipefish. They are pretty cool!

[psybera1987]

@cleedivine i've read these are the relatives of sea horse!

[reggaemalta]

Hi naturvetenskap09

Have you raised any young? I am currently working with the species and am raising 40 young from one male. They are 5 day old now and I'm feeding then enriched artemia, but will start supplying them with copepods soon. I am very interested in learning more and to share information about this cryptic species.

Thanks

Ray Caruana

Malta Aquaculture Reearch Centre,.

[qwertyuiopasdfg6809]

What do you feed them? Ive just got some pipefish but none of them r eating =(

What should i do?

[megumi459]

WOW!! Can some pipefish be brown? Cause I think I saw one in my filter that I gotfrom a friend that he used befor me! And he has ALOT of fish!! The fish was VERY skinny but not quite as skiny as the fish seen in this video. But that might be because it probebley not have eaten in a long while. Can some one help me?