[FishGrrl]

SWSaltwater, I have had similar experiences with the whole flagtail pipefish group. They seem to take frozen food within a few days at most. I haven't had experiences with blue stripes, but banded, yellow banned, and janns usually do. I offer both cyclopeeze and hikari mysis, and even my really small yellow bandeds could take mysis.

A agree the risk of disease is much greater. I had a few yellow bandeds that were doing so well in quarantine I decided not to treat them for parasites - which I normally would with wild caught syngnathids. In spite of a healthy appetite, the managed to fade away, and it wasn't until one had died I realized there was a problem. (which sucked too, because I think they may have been a pair)