jjmoneyman
RS Sponsor
He is great looking and you've done a great job to determine what it takes to take care of your eel. Great job!
My Blue Ribbon Eel eats! (pics and videos)
- Thread starter SantaMonica
- Start date
kathywithbirds
Well-Known Member
WOW. He is a beautiful animal. Congrats on long term success. How long do they live?
The flow thing; is it possible they like the flow over their gills (breathing?) I don't know anything about eel construction.
The flow thing; is it possible they like the flow over their gills (breathing?) I don't know anything about eel construction.
Good question, how long they live. I only know that I think 5 years is the longest I have read about on a forum. I even waited 6 months to post the pics and vids (Aug 2006 to Feb 2007) just to make sure it was for real.
He does love flow. He will seek it out.
He does love flow. He will seek it out.
RiotNrrrd
New Member
Hello, I just signed up after finding this post from a Google search.
I have the world's longest-lived Ribbon Eel in captivity. It is something like 31 years old now. My ex and I got it when we lived in Arcadia CA and we moved away from there in 1985. It has gone through 6 moves like a champ in that time. I have been buying it feeder guppies at the same place (The Fish Cove in La Crescenta, CA) for over a decade, they can vouch for a good part of the age. It is like the Energizer Bunny, it never got the memo that it was supposed to die from 6 months to a year due to fragility!
(I would post a pic but apparently I need to have 5 posts first before I can do that.)
If you mean my vids, there would be no eel updates because the eel is gone.
RiotNrrrd
New Member
All the vids are still at http://www.youtube.com/user/SantaMonicaMale at the bottom.
The eel did great for 6 years, but slowly started eating less, and finally new it was the end when he came halfway out overnight to die.
The eel did great for 6 years, but slowly started eating less, and finally new it was the end when he came halfway out overnight to die.
RiotNrrrd
New Member
That's really sad to hear. Was there anything else in the tank? How often did you feed it? With what?
I have nothing else in my 60 gallon tank (out of paranoia - don't want to stress the eel out) and I feed it 2 dozen feeder guppies (it thumbs its nose at anything else) once a week, like clockwork. 30+ years and counting ...
It was a regular reef tank. I fed a silverside once a week, although he would occasionally catch small narrow fish.
RiotNrrrd
to ReefSanctuary, a real Sanctuary of reef forums, with lots of very nice members
Start a tank thread & share your tank with us so we can follow along, we love pics
to ReefSanctuary, a real Sanctuary of reef forums, with lots of very nice members
Start a tank thread & share your tank with us so we can follow along, we love pics