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General => Fish Talk => Fish ID sub-forum => Topic started by: BigJim on October 15, 2014, 12:15:15 PM

Title: PipeFish
Post by: BigJim on October 15, 2014, 12:15:15 PM
Check out this cool little PipeFish I got to play with the other day!

Great camoflauge!!

http://youtu.be/vC33iko4CuI

 :smt006

Sincerely,

Jim
Title: Re: PipeFish
Post by: Formerdiver on October 15, 2014, 12:24:22 PM
I'd show the video of my pipefish but I'm afraid snapchat would leak it  :smt044
Title: Re: PipeFish
Post by: PISCEAN on October 15, 2014, 12:26:31 PM
way cool Jim!
As a little kid I had a couple that i found washed up dead after big storms. I dried them in the sun like seahorses and had them in a glass case for years. To see them alive is really special.
Title: Re: PipeFish
Post by: FisHunter on October 15, 2014, 12:30:58 PM
never knew of such a thing!....cute lil' pipefish
Title: Re: PipeFish
Post by: BigJim on October 15, 2014, 12:34:50 PM
To see them alive is really special.

I know right?!?

I was laying on the surface breathing up and looking down through the kelp and relaxing...and my eyes picked out his body and tail...

I was like WTF is that? Seahorse?  Dove down and there he was...couldn't find him again after that brief encounter though...looks just like a little kelp frond!

 :smt007

 :smt006

Sincerely,

Jim
Title: Re: PipeFish
Post by: Fish Master1 on October 15, 2014, 12:48:01 PM
Big schools of them off lovers point.. Cool looking things....
Title: Re: PipeFish
Post by: trianglelaguna on October 15, 2014, 12:52:31 PM
wow

yeah thats cool,,,very cool
Title: Re: PipeFish
Post by: Cabeza de Martillo on October 15, 2014, 12:56:10 PM
Ive been scuba diving for 25 years and free diving about 5 years and never saw one of those until this past August at Shelter Cove. It was only about 2 inches long with a seahorse face. Tried describing it to people back on land but no one knew what I was talking about.

Thanks for the ID and the vid.

Cool little fish  :smt001
Title: Re: PipeFish
Post by: alien on October 15, 2014, 06:47:34 PM
That was a  cool dive Bigjim! I wish i could hold my breath that long :smt001 I can't believe you didn't  eat that pipefish :smt001
Title: Re: PipeFish
Post by: insearchoffish on October 15, 2014, 09:01:08 PM
Man, good eye spotting that little guy. Your videos give off the feeling that you are just completely relaxed out there, movements are smooth and graceful. Not like if I were to film my dives where it is as fast to the bottom as I can, quick pop of an ab and racing back to the surface.LOL
Title: Re: PipeFish
Post by: ppickerell on October 15, 2014, 09:25:44 PM
Cabbie with a migraine, LOL.
Title: Re: PipeFish
Post by: bloodbath on October 15, 2014, 10:19:25 PM
What a trip! Soft hands on the pipefish. Cool footage Jim!
Title: Re: PipeFish
Post by: Tote on October 15, 2014, 10:37:52 PM
You sure make a minute seem like along time.
Oh wait. Underwater it is!
Title: Re: PipeFish
Post by: Mienboy on October 15, 2014, 10:40:42 PM
Pipefish are in the same family as  seahorses
Title: Re: PipeFish
Post by: Sin Coast on October 15, 2014, 11:22:52 PM
So, with those pipefish...do you recommend a treble-hook stinger or just straight nose hooked?
Title: Re: PipeFish
Post by: Rock Hopper on October 16, 2014, 05:53:23 AM
We used to get them in our castnets up here occasionally.
Title: Re: PipeFish
Post by: AlsHobieOutback on October 16, 2014, 03:47:57 PM
Pipefish  :smt044
Title: Re: PipeFish
Post by: SeaWeed on October 16, 2014, 10:36:55 PM
How does the Pipefish smoke. I think we need to put something in it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nnVrJsdM3Jk
Title: Re: PipeFish
Post by: Desertdiver on October 17, 2014, 07:59:22 AM
Ma Ocean's wonderland, you never know what you'll find next . Thanks for sharing that clip interesting creature.