unquestionably sea horses are one of the most bizarre looking sea creatures. Pipefish, a close cousin is even weirder. Look at these fishes and you will agree with me.
Along with sea horses and sea dragons, the pipefish belong to the group
Syngnathidae. There are thousands of species living in the oceans.
Like their sea horse brethren, the male pipefishes also do parenting duties like carrying eggs and also “giving birth”.
Most of the pipefish species live in the coral reefs. Some can also be spotted in sea grass beds. Here are some more photos of them.
I hope that you will enjoy this post.
I used to keep a blue-striped pipefish, one of the ones in the top photo. They’re lovely little fish to watch, they glide beautifully around on invisible fins and intently inspect anything and everything for small creatures to snikt up with their little beaks.
By far the silliest way of maintaining a position in the water I’ve ever seen. This is how he begs for food. And yes he has uprooted many plants recently; I’ll fix them next waterchange. Honestly though if you have the space for one of these fish they are by far the best to interact with.
The lungfish I had when I was a teenager was one of my best pets ever
Eggs, a Betta albimarginata, trying to show the panda corydoras out of camera view who’s boss.
I love these guys! They’re a wild betta species, but most in the trade are captive-bred, and they’re relatively easy to breed. They can be kept in multiples, as they aren’t particularly aggressive, due to not being bred for fighting like pet store B. splendens formerly were.
I used to have two pairs in a 30 gallon cube, and the two males set up territory on either side of the tank. If one got into the other’s space, they’d flare and circle a bit, but would leave it at that. The females swam freely between the territories.
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