Honshu Pipefish
(Doryrhamphus japonicus)

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Honshu Pipefish: Your Elegant Cleaner for Marine Reefs

Add a captivating Honshu Pipefish to your mature reef aquarium. These unique, peaceful marine fish offer fascinating behaviour and stunning beauty.

Overview

The Honshu Pipefish (*Doryrhamphus japonicus*) boasts a long, slender, eel-like body adorned with an orange to rusty brown base. A striking thin blue stripe extends from its snout, through its eye, to its distinctive fan-shaped caudal fin. This elegant cleaner fish actively seeks out and consumes parasites from other tank inhabitants, making them a beneficial and visually intriguing addition to your healthy aquarium fish community. They often reside near rockwork and corals.

Care Level

The Honshu Pipefish is recommended for advanced aquarists. They are peaceful and delicate, best kept with equally calm and slow-eating tank mates, or ideally in a dedicated species tank. Adult Honshu Pipefish form strong pair bonds and are territorial towards their own kind; never house multiple males or multiple females together.

Tank Essentials

A minimum 150-litre aquarium is essential for a Honshu Pipefish. Your tank should be mature, with abundant live rock and ample crevices for hiding and exploration. Provide gentle, varied water flow to mimic their natural reef environment. Stable water parameters are crucial for their long-term well-being.

Diet

Honshu Pipefish are carnivorous, primarily feeding on tiny live crustaceans such as copepods and Artemia nauplii. They can be slow, cautious eaters, often requiring live food initially before accepting small frozen zooplankton. A refugium can greatly assist in maintaining a consistent food supply.

Why Buy From Us

When you buy Honshu Pipefish online from Corais de Vidro, you receive ethically sourced, responsibly quarantined specimens. We prioritize humane shipping practices to ensure your new marine inhabitants arrive in prime condition, ready to thrive in your carefully prepared aquarium.

• Scientific Name: Doryrhamphus japonicus
• Common Name / Variant: Honshu Pipefish
• Maximum Size: 8.5 cm
• Origin: Western Pacific Ocean (Japan, Indonesia, Philippines, Korea)
• pH Range: 8.1–8.4
• Temperature: 22–26°C
• Lifespan: [data unavailable]
• Swimming Zone: Mid | Bottom

Bring the serene elegance of the Honshu Pipefish to your reef system today!