tbittner
Well-Known Member
Ok, this is REALLY a surprise! I bought a small snowflake eel from a local LFS and he couldn't get him out of the rock. I suggested he just give me the rock along with the eel. (rock weighed about 4 pounds).
He agreed. For now I just have it in a 55g as it's only about 8". My son and I went to the grocery store and bought fresh, uncooked shrimp, and a 1/2 lb of tuna steak. We cut the tuna into small chunks. We wrapped each chunk with a shrimp into individual feed packets and froze them, except for one serving. We also got kabob sticks to feed the eel. We put a drop each of Seacon, Garlic, and Zoe on the fish, poked it with the stick, stuck it down to his hole in the rock, and in a heart beat he was out munching away at the tuna. He ate almost the whole thing. I had my son just drop the shrimp in next to his hole. Later I was walking by the tank and he was out eating.
MUCH to my amazement, ANOTHER eel came out of the rock and started eating the shrimp, even chased the snowflake away as this eel was easily 16".
This is what it looked like. Now, I haven't been able to find hardly any information about this eel so I'm asking for help. How big does this thing get? What is it's prefered food? What are compatibilities with other fish? (snowflake is the only one in this tank... so far...)
I'll get pictures up when he comes back out. He was out swimming around for a while this evening and I was so shocked and amazed that getting pictures never entered my mind!!!
He agreed. For now I just have it in a 55g as it's only about 8". My son and I went to the grocery store and bought fresh, uncooked shrimp, and a 1/2 lb of tuna steak. We cut the tuna into small chunks. We wrapped each chunk with a shrimp into individual feed packets and froze them, except for one serving. We also got kabob sticks to feed the eel. We put a drop each of Seacon, Garlic, and Zoe on the fish, poked it with the stick, stuck it down to his hole in the rock, and in a heart beat he was out munching away at the tuna. He ate almost the whole thing. I had my son just drop the shrimp in next to his hole. Later I was walking by the tank and he was out eating.
MUCH to my amazement, ANOTHER eel came out of the rock and started eating the shrimp, even chased the snowflake away as this eel was easily 16".
This is what it looked like. Now, I haven't been able to find hardly any information about this eel so I'm asking for help. How big does this thing get? What is it's prefered food? What are compatibilities with other fish? (snowflake is the only one in this tank... so far...)
I'll get pictures up when he comes back out. He was out swimming around for a while this evening and I was so shocked and amazed that getting pictures never entered my mind!!!