Will I be able to keep a pipe fish?

[BonnieC]

I am just working out my wish list. Ill be making my first tank. Its dimensions are 24 x 24 x 14 shallow rimless.

I plan to have corals and clams.

The only fish so far I am wanting are a couple clowns, a cleaner goby, and then when the tank is very mature, a mandarin and a pipefish.

Would a pipefish be okay in a tank like that?

 

[livebait]

No. It will be out competed for food and possibly bullied by the other fish.

 

[Puffersarefun]

Try this link: Seahorse Tankmates: What’s Safe, What’s Not? | FusedJaw: Seahorses, Pipefish & Seadragonslsmile:

 

[1Reefer]

Pipe fish are a lot like sea horses in the aspect of requirments... a lot of the time its going to be a species tank... and if not its got to be very carefully planned out, macros are usually involved

 

[cyychan]

My tank contains a pair of H. reidi, a pair of banded pipefish, a mandarin and snails. They love the macros which I keep trimming down every other week. I only have a small gorgonian and xenia as far as coral goes. This set up seems to work well, with the mandarin and snails picking up left overs.