My Opossum Pipefish

pepetj · July 5th, 2009

Hi here is a pic of my Opossum Pipefish (not sure if it is a Microphis brachiurus lineatus or a Microphis brachiurus brachiurus yet). Sold to me as raised by a local breeder but actually is wild caught.

Keeping it in a low-end brackish tank (specific gravity at 1.004) with a bunch of native poecila species (like endler guppies, but smaller as adults), seven Yellow Nose Shrimps, one wild caught (by me) Virgin Nerite Snail, one native trumpet snail, and a few Ramshorn Snails. The tank is lightly planted with Anubias barteri var. nana (its leaves are adapting by growing much smaller in diameter), Vallisnera americana, Vallisnera spiralis, Ceratophilum demersum and one cryptocoryne species.

Pepe
Santo Domingo