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Lissocampus runa (Whitley, 1931)
Lissocampus runa is a species of marine fish in the family Syngnathidae. The pipefish is endemic to Australia and occurs in temperate coastal waters from northern New South Wales across the south of the country to southwestern Western Australia. It lives in algae beds, rocky reefs, tide pools, scree bottoms near rocky reefs and estuaries along the coast.
The diet should consist of small crustaceans such as copepods. Reproduction occurs through ovoviviparity, in which males incubate eggs before giving birth to fry,
The pipefish has an extremely elongated, slender body surrounded by rings of bone. It has a distinctly concave mouth and a tail that is much longer than the body. It is very color variable. The color ranges from plain to brown, reddish, green, yellow or whitish mottled, with or without stripes on the sides and a brown spot on the front of the dorsal fin. Males are usually whitish to bluish and have a bright red gill cover.
Synonymised names
Festucalex runa Whitley, 1931 · unaccepted
Lissocampus affinis Whitley, 1944 · unaccepted
The term "reef safe" is often used in marine aquaristics, especially when buying a new species people often ask if the new animal is "reef safe".
What exactly does reef safe mean?
To answer this question, you can ask target-oriented questions and inquire in forums, clubs, dealers and with aquarist friends:
- Are there already experiences and keeping reports that assure that the new animal can live in other suitably equipped aquariums without ever having caused problems?
- Is there any experience of invertebrates (crustaceans, hermits, mussels, snails) or corals being attacked by other inhabitants such as fish of the same or a different species?
- Is any information known or expected about a possible change in dietary habits, e.g., from a plant-based diet to a meat-based diet?
- Do the desired animals leave the reef structure "alone", do they constantly change it (boring starfish, digger gobies, parrotfish, triggerfish) and thus disturb or displace other co-inhabitants?
- do new animals tend to get diseases repeatedly and very quickly and can they be treated?
- Do known peaceful animals change their character in the course of their life and become aggressive?
- Can the death of a new animal possibly even lead to the death of the rest of the stock through poisoning (possible with some species of sea cucumbers)?
- Last but not least the keeper of the animals has to be included in the "reef safety", there are actively poisonous, passively poisonous animals, animals that have dangerous biting or stinging weapons, animals with extremely strong nettle poisons, these have to be (er)known and a plan of action should have been made in advance in case of an attack on the aquarist (e.g. telephone numbers of the poison control center, the treating doctor, the tropical institute etc.).
If all questions are evaluated positively in the sense of the animal(s) and the keeper, then one can assume a "reef safety".
Lissocampus runa is a species of marine fish in the family Syngnathidae. The pipefish is endemic to Australia and occurs in temperate coastal waters from northern New South Wales across the south of the country to southwestern Western Australia. It lives in algae beds, rocky reefs, tide pools, scree bottoms near rocky reefs and estuaries along the coast.
The diet should consist of small crustaceans such as copepods. Reproduction occurs through ovoviviparity, in which males incubate eggs before giving birth to fry,
The pipefish has an extremely elongated, slender body surrounded by rings of bone. It has a distinctly concave mouth and a tail that is much longer than the body. It is very color variable. The color ranges from plain to brown, reddish, green, yellow or whitish mottled, with or without stripes on the sides and a brown spot on the front of the dorsal fin. Males are usually whitish to bluish and have a bright red gill cover.
Synonymised names
Festucalex runa Whitley, 1931 · unaccepted
Lissocampus affinis Whitley, 1944 · unaccepted
The term "reef safe" is often used in marine aquaristics, especially when buying a new species people often ask if the new animal is "reef safe".
What exactly does reef safe mean?
To answer this question, you can ask target-oriented questions and inquire in forums, clubs, dealers and with aquarist friends:
- Are there already experiences and keeping reports that assure that the new animal can live in other suitably equipped aquariums without ever having caused problems?
- Is there any experience of invertebrates (crustaceans, hermits, mussels, snails) or corals being attacked by other inhabitants such as fish of the same or a different species?
- Is any information known or expected about a possible change in dietary habits, e.g., from a plant-based diet to a meat-based diet?
- Do the desired animals leave the reef structure "alone", do they constantly change it (boring starfish, digger gobies, parrotfish, triggerfish) and thus disturb or displace other co-inhabitants?
- do new animals tend to get diseases repeatedly and very quickly and can they be treated?
- Do known peaceful animals change their character in the course of their life and become aggressive?
- Can the death of a new animal possibly even lead to the death of the rest of the stock through poisoning (possible with some species of sea cucumbers)?
- Last but not least the keeper of the animals has to be included in the "reef safety", there are actively poisonous, passively poisonous animals, animals that have dangerous biting or stinging weapons, animals with extremely strong nettle poisons, these have to be (er)known and a plan of action should have been made in advance in case of an attack on the aquarist (e.g. telephone numbers of the poison control center, the treating doctor, the tropical institute etc.).
If all questions are evaluated positively in the sense of the animal(s) and the keeper, then one can assume a "reef safety".
