{"id":2523,"date":"2024-08-11T19:50:22","date_gmt":"2024-08-11T19:50:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bogott.net\/unspecified\/?page_id=2523"},"modified":"2024-08-11T19:50:22","modified_gmt":"2024-08-11T19:50:22","slug":"microphis-brachyurus","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/bogott.net\/unspecified\/?page_id=2523","title":{"rendered":"Microphis brachyurus"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>These pipefish are larger and sturdier than others that I&#8217;ve tried to keep. They live in estuaries but I kept healthy adults in fresh, soft water for quite a while.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-video\"><video controls src=\"https:\/\/bogott.net\/unspecified\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/microphis-1.mov\"><\/video><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>They ate a lot of standard frozen foods, but their staple was live glassworms which were plentiful the year I kept the pipefish but probably unnecessary to maintain them. Any time I fed them frozen mysis they would spawn a day or two later.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"microphis dance\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/p4YViogcQqM?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Post spawning the eggs would be visible on the underside of the male (between flaps rather than in a pouch like a seahorse.) The eggs lightened as they developed, and I had good luck collecting and preserving fry by placing the gravid male in a guppy-style breeding trap in an otherwise empty tank.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-video\"><video controls src=\"https:\/\/bogott.net\/unspecified\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/microphisfry-1.mov\"><\/video><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The fry were fully-formed miniatures of the adults. I tried feeding them a variety of foods; baby brine shrimp seemed too large, and I was never convinced that they would really eat vinegar eels. They survived the longest on rotifers. An <a href=\"https:\/\/onlinelibrary.wiley.com\/doi\/full\/10.1111\/jwas.12142\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/onlinelibrary.wiley.com\/doi\/full\/10.1111\/jwas.12142\">online article <\/a>suggests that the fry should be raised in brackish water, which would suit the rotifers just fine.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The adult fish died from fungal infections while I was traveling. I&#8217;ve lost pipefish of other species to fungus as well, so it must be true what they say about Syngnathidae having a weakened immune system.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I hope I get a chance to try again with this species but they rarely show up on import lists.  They will probably appreciate the  harder\/saltier water that I have in Northfield.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>These pipefish are larger and sturdier than others that I&#8217;ve tried to keep. They live in estuaries but I kept healthy adults in fresh, soft water for quite a while. They ate a lot of standard frozen foods, but their &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/bogott.net\/unspecified\/?page_id=2523\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":2480,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-2523","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bogott.net\/unspecified\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2523","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bogott.net\/unspecified\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bogott.net\/unspecified\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bogott.net\/unspecified\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bogott.net\/unspecified\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2523"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/bogott.net\/unspecified\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2523\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2526,"href":"https:\/\/bogott.net\/unspecified\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2523\/revisions\/2526"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bogott.net\/unspecified\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2480"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bogott.net\/unspecified\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2523"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}