Ghost Eel

tbittner · 07-02-2007, 09:14 PM

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!!!

Dentoid · 07-02-2007, 09:27 PM

BONUS!

hooterhead · 07-02-2007, 09:36 PM

wow. that's amazing. wonder if the LFS even knew it was there?

kyle1284 · 07-02-2007, 09:38 PM

Ha Haaaa Thats Awesome.,... Hopeuflly A Good Surprise!!

tbittner · 07-02-2007, 09:45 PM

I don't know if they knew or not. Hopefully it IS a nice surpise BUT I don't know anything about it. Can anyone point me to a site that has information about it? I WOULD like to keep it healthy.

It really is a beautiful eel, VERY graceful in the water. I feel better knowing that it ate PLUS it ate food coated with the Seacon, Garlic, and Zoe.

kyle1284 · 07-02-2007, 10:00 PM

http://www.liveaquaria.com/product/p...catid=1737&N=0 check it out....

BigAl07 · 07-02-2007, 10:02 PM

Looks like a HUGE score! Way to go!

I would start off looking at the Internet and doing some more google searches on it. Looks like a keeper as long as the tank is prepared properly for it...

http://www.liveaquaria.com/product/p...21&pCatId=1737

Allen

BigAl07 · 07-02-2007, 10:04 PM

Kyle beat ME to it!! Good work though!!

Allen

tbittner · 07-02-2007, 10:08 PM

Great! Thanks! I googled my rear off this evening and I couldn't find hardly anything on it.

Hopefully, it stays in it's rock tonight and tomorrow until I get a chance to go get enough screen door screen to seal the tank up tight.

1' 8"... YIKES!!! At least it's actual body is VERY thin, but it has a really pretty flowing fin(?) along the top and bottom of it. The top fin(?) has a solid white line for the length of it. It hasn't come back out since it's eating venture. It is sticking it's head out though.

hooterhead · 07-03-2007, 12:13 AM

That's usually all you will see. I've kept them many times at the various LFS's i've worked at and they are a graceful creature. Hopefully this one and your snowflake get along.

Melanie · 07-03-2007, 03:43 AM

How cool! Can't wait to see some pics.

tbittner · 07-03-2007, 05:37 AM

Yeah, the snowflake is going to get quite a bit bigger then the ghost. I'm going to a different LFS, the one owned by a marine biologist who is VERY enthusiastic about everything saltwater, and I'll ask him about it. If it wouldn't eat shrimp, I'd move it into my 120g but I love my cleaner shrimps.

tbittner · 07-13-2007, 05:35 PM

OK!!! I finally got pictures of it while it was on the bare side of the tank that we use for feeding purposes.

Beautiful critter!

Sorry for the dirty glass, we had just done a water change and we didn't get a chance to clean the glass.

vdituri · 07-13-2007, 07:27 PM

BEST hitchhiker of the decade!
Looks alot like a blue ribbon eel with different coloration.

lcstorc · 07-13-2007, 07:39 PM

Beautiful animal.
I hope it does well for you.

07-02-2007, 09:14 PM	#1 (permalink)
tbittner Watch this Ma! Join Date: Jun 2007 Location: Northern VA Posts: 5,562 View Gallery Karma Komment Add yours!	Ghost Eel 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!!! __________________ Terry 150g predator tank full of killers. Soon to be upgraded to a 360g. 450g reef 300g sump.

07-02-2007, 09:27 PM	#2 (permalink)
Dentoid Over Achiever Join Date: Dec 2006 Location: Virginia Posts: 10,239 View Gallery Karma Komment	Re: Ghost Eel BONUS! __________________ Scott Dentoid's Reeforama

07-02-2007, 09:36 PM	#3 (permalink)
hooterhead Midas Blenny Join Date: Oct 2005 Location: Denton, TX Posts: 87 View Gallery Karma Komment	Re: Ghost Eel wow. that's amazing. wonder if the LFS even knew it was there?

07-02-2007, 09:38 PM	#4 (permalink)
kyle1284 Harlequin Tuskfish Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Huntsville, TX Posts: 919 View Gallery Karma Komment	Re: Ghost Eel Ha Haaaa Thats Awesome.,... Hopeuflly A Good Surprise!! __________________ KYLE 75 Gal 110 Lbs Live Rock 40 Lbs of live sand Equiptment:48 Inch 4x54 T-5 true blue and 10000k lights, 2 fuvual 305 Canister Filters Mis. Mushrooms, Fan Worms, hammer coral, frog spawn, candy cane, A TON OF TRUMPET CORAL!! orange plating monti, some kind of branching monti, pom pom xeina, all kinds of zoos BRIGHT GREEN star polyps, xeina, neon green toadstool, 3 damn damsles, a foxface and a blue tang. November 1...The begining! http://i67.photobucket.com/albums/h2.../random045.jpg November 8,2008 http://i67.photobucket.com/albums/h2...ristina034.jpg My 75 GALLON BAR TOP REEF TANK! http://www.reefsanctuary.com/forums/...n-bar-top.html

07-02-2007, 09:45 PM	#5 (permalink)
tbittner Watch this Ma! Join Date: Jun 2007 Location: Northern VA Posts: 5,562 View Gallery Karma Komment Add yours!	Re: Ghost Eel I don't know if they knew or not. Hopefully it IS a nice surpise BUT I don't know anything about it. Can anyone point me to a site that has information about it? I WOULD like to keep it healthy. It really is a beautiful eel, VERY graceful in the water. I feel better knowing that it ate PLUS it ate food coated with the Seacon, Garlic, and Zoe. __________________ Terry 150g predator tank full of killers. Soon to be upgraded to a 360g. 450g reef 300g sump.

07-02-2007, 10:00 PM	#6 (permalink)
kyle1284 Harlequin Tuskfish Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Huntsville, TX Posts: 919 View Gallery Karma Komment	Re: Ghost Eel http://www.liveaquaria.com/product/p...catid=1737&N=0 check it out.... __________________ KYLE 75 Gal 110 Lbs Live Rock 40 Lbs of live sand Equiptment:48 Inch 4x54 T-5 true blue and 10000k lights, 2 fuvual 305 Canister Filters Mis. Mushrooms, Fan Worms, hammer coral, frog spawn, candy cane, A TON OF TRUMPET CORAL!! orange plating monti, some kind of branching monti, pom pom xeina, all kinds of zoos BRIGHT GREEN star polyps, xeina, neon green toadstool, 3 damn damsles, a foxface and a blue tang. November 1...The begining! http://i67.photobucket.com/albums/h2.../random045.jpg November 8,2008 http://i67.photobucket.com/albums/h2...ristina034.jpg My 75 GALLON BAR TOP REEF TANK! http://www.reefsanctuary.com/forums/...n-bar-top.html

07-02-2007, 10:02 PM	#7 (permalink)
BigAl07 Reef Addict (hopeless) Join Date: Mar 2007 Location: Waynesville, North Carolina Posts: 10,619 View Gallery Karma Komment Add yours!	Re: Ghost Eel Looks like a HUGE score! Way to go! I would start off looking at the Internet and doing some more google searches on it. Looks like a keeper as long as the tank is prepared properly for it... http://www.liveaquaria.com/product/p...21&pCatId=1737 Allen __________________ Allen Allen's testimonial . . ."Let Me help you help YOURSELF" (Click Here) with a SW set up there is one basic fundamental rule that we ALL should follow *When in doubt... wait it out. This means take it slow and let the tank "develop" and don't rush it. Time is your friend Ask me about how to increase your REEF budget without going without FOOD!!* Big Al's 10g Julie's (BigAl's Gal) 6g NanoCube BigAl's Slow 90g Tank Chronicle Allens OFFICE 12g Nano-Reef Reef Balls & Cakes Debt Free & Change your Family Tree!!

07-02-2007, 10:04 PM	#8 (permalink)
BigAl07 Reef Addict (hopeless) Join Date: Mar 2007 Location: Waynesville, North Carolina Posts: 10,619 View Gallery Karma Komment Add yours!	Re: Ghost Eel Kyle beat ME to it!! Good work though!! Allen __________________ Allen Allen's testimonial . . ."Let Me help you help YOURSELF" (Click Here) with a SW set up there is one basic fundamental rule that we ALL should follow *When in doubt... wait it out. This means take it slow and let the tank "develop" and don't rush it. Time is your friend Ask me about how to increase your REEF budget without going without FOOD!!* Big Al's 10g Julie's (BigAl's Gal) 6g NanoCube BigAl's Slow 90g Tank Chronicle Allens OFFICE 12g Nano-Reef Reef Balls & Cakes Debt Free & Change your Family Tree!!

07-02-2007, 10:08 PM	#9 (permalink)
tbittner Watch this Ma! Join Date: Jun 2007 Location: Northern VA Posts: 5,562 View Gallery Karma Komment Add yours!	Re: Ghost Eel Great! Thanks! I googled my rear off this evening and I couldn't find hardly anything on it. Hopefully, it stays in it's rock tonight and tomorrow until I get a chance to go get enough screen door screen to seal the tank up tight. 1' 8"... YIKES!!! At least it's actual body is VERY thin, but it has a really pretty flowing fin(?) along the top and bottom of it. The top fin(?) has a solid white line for the length of it. It hasn't come back out since it's eating venture. It is sticking it's head out though. __________________ Terry 150g predator tank full of killers. Soon to be upgraded to a 360g. 450g reef 300g sump.

07-03-2007, 12:13 AM	#10 (permalink)
hooterhead Midas Blenny Join Date: Oct 2005 Location: Denton, TX Posts: 87 View Gallery Karma Komment	Re: Ghost Eel That's usually all you will see. I've kept them many times at the various LFS's i've worked at and they are a graceful creature. Hopefully this one and your snowflake get along.

07-03-2007, 03:43 AM	#11 (permalink)
Melanie Golden Moray Join Date: Jun 2007 Location: Naples, Florida Posts: 2,120 View Gallery Karma Komment Add yours!	Re: Ghost Eel How cool! Can't wait to see some pics. __________________ My Reef Journey Latest Recap My Videos My Flickr Photos Pres. of Dork Club I love ScubaDrew and North East Coral! Read why HERE...

07-03-2007, 05:37 AM	#12 (permalink)
tbittner Watch this Ma! Join Date: Jun 2007 Location: Northern VA Posts: 5,562 View Gallery Karma Komment Add yours!	Re: Ghost Eel Yeah, the snowflake is going to get quite a bit bigger then the ghost. I'm going to a different LFS, the one owned by a marine biologist who is VERY enthusiastic about everything saltwater, and I'll ask him about it. If it wouldn't eat shrimp, I'd move it into my 120g but I love my cleaner shrimps. __________________ Terry 150g predator tank full of killers. Soon to be upgraded to a 360g. 450g reef 300g sump.

07-13-2007, 05:35 PM	#13 (permalink)
tbittner Watch this Ma! Join Date: Jun 2007 Location: Northern VA Posts: 5,562 View Gallery Karma Komment Add yours!	Re: Ghost Eel OK!!! I finally got pictures of it while it was on the bare side of the tank that we use for feeding purposes. Beautiful critter! Sorry for the dirty glass, we had just done a water change and we didn't get a chance to clean the glass. __________________ Terry 150g predator tank full of killers. Soon to be upgraded to a 360g. 450g reef 300g sump.

07-13-2007, 07:27 PM	#14 (permalink)
vdituri Excellent Guesser :D Join Date: Aug 2006 Location: Sacramento California Posts: 5,725 View Gallery Karma Komment Add yours!	Re: Ghost Eel BEST hitchhiker of the decade! Looks alot like a blue ribbon eel with different coloration. __________________ Victor ----- People come into our lives for a reason, a season or a lifetime. When you know which one it is, you will know what to do for that person. When someone is in your life for a REASON, it is usually to meet a need you have expressed. They have come to assist you through a difficulty, to provide you with guidance and support, to aid you physically, emotionally or spiritually. They may seem like a godsend and they are. They are there for the reason you need them to be. Then, without any wrongdoing on your part or at an inconvenient time, this person will say or do something to bring the relationship to an end. What we must realize is that our need has been met, our desire fulfilled, their work is done. The prayer you sent up has been answered and now it is time to move on.

07-13-2007, 07:39 PM	#15 (permalink)
lcstorc Sunshine Reefer Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: Cocoa Fl Posts: 18,473 View Gallery Karma Komment Add yours!	Re: Ghost Eel Beautiful animal. I hope it does well for you. __________________ Peace LYNN You can't change the past but you can change how you view it. A reef tank is like a racecar. The faster you go the harder you crash. Lynn and Franks saltwater adventure Lynn's 20g clown tank Lynn's 90g of sunshine Every 60 seconds you spend upset is a minute of happiness you'll never get back.

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