Freshwater morray

[Brian C]

I have a freshwater morray (gymnothorax tile), and have kept i for some time now

at the moment it wil only eat live food (fish), but what kind of food would be good to use to train it to eat dead food?

best wishes

Brian (Denmark)

[Syffe457]

There is no such thing as a fresh water morray, you will need to move to salt or brackish water. But to get it to eat frozen food just offer it more often then the live food, it just a baby and thats why its fresh water, ti will take some time to get it do take the food but over time it will work.

[rottbo]

will need to be moved to full marine tank in order to live a full life and try frozen silversides my eel loves them

[Brian C]

I know they are not freshwater species, and I keep mine in Brackish water :-)
it's an adult, it seems to very happy with eating mollies especially sailfin

I don't know "silversides" what is this?

best wishes
Brian

[Legacy]

From what I have read Live Feeders are considered to be a poor choice of nutrition. I have also heard cases of live feeders backing up the intestinal system and causing death. I don't know if this is only gold fish or not.

I'd try out squid, possibly pieces of fish fillets, fed with forceps and wiggled like a live fish.

[rottbo]

silversides are a type of minnow that they sell frozen and i only feed these as treats

[Legacy]

Rottbo's method of feeding silversides only as treats sounds very reasonable. I think I might adopt that technique. =)

[rottbo]

mine loves it he will eat till he cant move if i let him, he gets all bulged out and just lays there for a couple of hours

[Hakon]

Maybe you can try with frozen shrimp and pretend it's live

[BlondeBantam]

I've had good luck feeding my eels frozen foods (shrimp,krill) by simply waving it about past the eels nose. They could never resist take a bite of it, or my finger for that matter.

[Don4921]

try silver sides or mysis shrimp

[brackishdude]

They are blind and mainly hunt by smell or commostion in the water. When hungrym they will eat most anything, feeders or frozen. Mine used to eat the orange cichlid sticks (by tetra?). Made some funny looking poop.

[Fabio's Dad]

Fabio's favorite thing to go after was fingers! Pretty cool.

[Tanyoberu]

I personally like to feed my eels crawfish. They become expensive unless you become friends with you LFS guy/gal and or know how to breed them yourself. Otherwise, I swear by Hikari's Carnivore Pellets. They have the floating and the sinking type.

One of the three eels eat it consistently, but all of them eat it. I can't say the technique to getting your eels to eat the stuff. The problem is that two of the three will only grab the sinking pellets when they first fall to the bottom of the tank, but will not eat them when they are still on the tank floor. The smallest will sniff them out and gorge on the pellets. So for the other two I have to swirls the pellets around and they will eat them.

Good luck.