Originally Posted by CELACANTHr
Hey, promisetbg is that a male janns pipefish? i just wanted to see if i could identify it correctly.
I took the picture of the pipefish awhile back from a website{my apologies,as I cannot correctly identify the photographer}You could be right on the ID.
The type that I keep are the bluestripe pipefish.{Doryrhamphus Excisus Excisus}They look similar,except that the Jann's get very large,and these stay tiny{2-3 "}.I have two males,one in my main display,and one in my refugium.I am searching for a female..I had one,but she did'nt make it.After getting the second male,I learned correctly how to ID male from female.So I had to seperate them... as they do not get along.
I found that males are much brighter in coloration,and if you look very close,males have a line of ridges along the nose that females do not.