View Full Version : My Pipefish have eggs!


mysterybox
12-04-2008, 10:43 PM
So for the very first time in some 2.5 years or so, I actually caught a glimpse of the full pouch on it's belly. I noticed it unexpectedly, so then I took my magnifying glass out & spent 30 minutes trying to catch a peak. Even though he was an inch or 2 from the glass at the time, his belly is always against the sand or rock.
It was pretty cool though.

Ralph

twistoflime
12-04-2008, 10:44 PM
Congrads! Are you going to try to raise the young?

mysterybox
12-04-2008, 10:45 PM
Thanks! & nope!

bobz
12-04-2008, 10:56 PM
Sweet!

nickskains
12-04-2008, 11:01 PM
Grats Ralph. Take some pictures if ya can. I'd love to see them!!

RaisingTwo2006
12-04-2008, 11:02 PM
UWP!! That's what this thread is!!

Congrats!!

Spike
12-04-2008, 11:03 PM
SWEET, that's awesome, Ralph

mysterybox
12-04-2008, 11:04 PM
pics would be absolutely impossible. I wish, though.

nickskains
12-04-2008, 11:09 PM
Awww... alrighty then. Grats anywho!!

mysterybox
12-04-2008, 11:14 PM
thanks! He rests his belly on the substrate & rock (I guess to protect them), so it took me 30 minutes to just get a glimpse. never mind trying to get a pic. sorry.

Acura_Rob
12-05-2008, 12:47 AM
Congrats Ralph.....Now comes the fun

mysterybox
12-05-2008, 12:57 AM
:unsure: I think it will be impossible to save the babies though!:unsure: no clue

Skriz
12-05-2008, 1:27 AM
Contact John aka BaboonScience (http://www.atlantareefclub.org/forums/member.php?u=2232), he may be able to help.

Amici
12-05-2008, 2:54 AM
There is also that person in Tennessee who breeds horses, they might know.

FutureInterest
12-05-2008, 3:14 AM
Very cool, considering all the micro fauna in your tank I'm surprised none have made it to maturity!

mysterybox
12-05-2008, 3:20 AM
I think the 2 Tunze's might have something to say about that, too. They probably get swept way. I can't lower them too much, or stonys suffer. Humm.

mysterybox
12-05-2008, 3:23 AM
I also had a Talbots Damsel that would have eaten them. I finally got rid of that & after a year of trying, my yellow tang went to Orlando (miamidolfan). We'll see.

Smoothie
12-10-2008, 1:20 AM
Gives you an excuse to start a 20gal planted and buy more snails and cyclopeeze.

mysterybox
12-10-2008, 7:40 AM
ya know!