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in Hippocampus, Part I, by Pete
Giwojna and Ben Giwojna Fresh to Brackish Water
Pipefishes, Solenostomidae
(Ghost Pipefishes),
/The Conscientious Aquarist
Of Leafy Dragons, Pipefishes, Seahorses;
Family Syngnathidae. Pipefishes, part 1
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By Bob Fenner
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Halicampus
macrorhynchus
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Pipefishes: Subfamily
Syngnathinae. Fifty one genera, about 190 species.
As for Pipefishes, they're survivability is, if
anything, even more dismal than wild-collected seahorses. They should
only be attempted by folks in the know and of dead earnest. Reef-type
set-ups with few or no competing fish tankmates are best for providing
conditions conducive to their care. Various banded pipefishes, in the
genera Dunckerocampus and Doryrhamphus are available from
time to time mostly out of the Indo-Pacific. The creeping Pipefishes of
the genus Corythoichthys are probably the most popular,
best-lived forms, some known to have lived for months in
well-established reef tanks. Some of the temperate species of
Syngnathus, likewise have been kept and bred in aquarium
confinement, as "species-tanks" by themselves.
| Acentronura
(Amphelikturus)
dendritica (Barbour, 1905), Pipehorse. Western Atlantic. To 7.5
cm. This one in Cozumel 2012 |
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Genus Corythoichthys:
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| Corythoichthys flavofasciatus (Ruppell
1838), the Network Pipefish. Indo-Pacific. To six inches in length.
One of the hardier "creeping" types of Pipes. Here are
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| Corythoichthys haematopterus (Bleeker 1851),
the Messmate Pipefish. Indo-Pacific; East Africa to Vanuatu,
southern Japan. To nearly eight inches in length. Maldives
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| Corythoichthys nigripectus Herald 1953, the
Black-Breasted Pipefish. Indo-Pacific; Red Sea to Micronesians. To
five inches in length. Found in lagoons and seaward reefs. Red Sea
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| Corythoichthys waitei (Ramsay 1881),
Scribbled Pipefish. Western Central Pacific; Samoa, Micronesia,
Noumea, Malaysia. Here in N. Sulawesi (Lembeh Strait). To about six
inches in length. Found on rubble zones and seaward
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