Fire Eel

[STAR]

Does anyone there keeping fire eel? What does it eat? I am keeping one now but don't seem to eat anything. LFS recommended bloodworm but I can't feed bloodworm as it dirty the tank water easily. Is there any other recommendation?

[stereo]

any pics?

what is fire eel? any site got introduction on them?

sound interesting

[WyldFya]

This belongs in a different section. Fire eels are best fed beefheart of bloodworms. I would use bloodworms if I were you. Just use the search function or google, and you'll come up with a few hits. I wouldn't worry about the water quality too much. The eel will eat a very large chunk, and most of your other fish will also try to steal the bloodworms.

[Steve_89]

any pics?

what is fire eel? any site got introduction on them?

sound interesting

Mastacembelus erythrotaenia

Put that in google and check it out...

Cool fish.

[dodgefreak8]

here is my 16" fire ell. He eats earth worms. I would feed blood worms if its smaller...
http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y189/dodgefreak8/100_2168.jpg

[stereo]

is there an eel that will not grow too big?
thinking keeping 1 eel in my tank

any recommendations? i do not want an eel that grow huge and eat up all my fishes~:eek:

[M|L]

I had one that eats anything.

shrimp, krill, worms (favorite), and even feeder fish.

[Hakon]

Agree with Ming, they eats anything.But when I first got the fire eel, it didn't eat. I tried with live bloodworms, and that really helped him eat.

[Steve_89]

Nice eel dodgefreak :)

[K.O.D]

My 26" Fire eel eats whole prawn, mussel whitebait and earthworms, he was the same at first and would only eat bloodworms, but bloodworms will not sustain his growth.
We recently got a tyretrack that was exactly the same, try soaking chopped prawns in defrosted bloodworm and feeding them that.

[STAR]

I tried to feed them prawn from the supermarket but seemingly, it don't want to eat.

[K.O.D]

You have to persevere, the soaking prawn in bloodworm does work

[M|L]

you want to start with worms, preferably live.

then you can proceed to other food.

[davo]

yea theyll eat anything. those are some NICE fire pics people. got a lot of good colour to them. nice rays too

[STAR]

Finally saw my fire eel eating meal worm. Took about 6 pcs at 1 time. Good to see it eat.:woot:

[Aras118119]

I would try some live ghost shrimp that seemed to always work with mine. If not that then maybe some feeder fish.

[STAR]

Now my fire eel start to eat meal worm.

[StiffMeister]

i would just go outside, dig up some regular worms and throw those in. my fire eels really love those. in fact they dont eat anything else! they are pretty young at around 10" but go totally crazy for worms!

[Im4u2nV]

nice fire eel....lotsa colours... and yes..the rays are also nice too...

i envy u for owning rays....still too expensive for me to get those...

[justjonx2]

How do i feed live bloodworms? Do i just throw'em in? cuz they seem to sink into the gravel and i don't think my fire eel can get to them...at least i haven't seen him eat any. On the other hand i just saw him moving around with poo dangling out so he must be eating SOMETHING...

[StiffMeister]

use the feeder buckets. they have tiny holes in them so the eels can suck the worms out. they will also fall out slowly cuz of the current etc. and you can stick it to the glass near the surface. i also use this to put in regular worms so the eels have something to do.

[Thomascl]

Nice Fire eels, i had a big tiretrack he was a great fish would only eat fresh prawns

[dmarinko]

go to http://www.petsolutions.com/Fire+Eel-I-59000-I-C-40001812-C-.aspx

[Noot]

if your fire eel is new in a tank it might take a while before it starts eating. Sometimes it takes 2 weeks before they accept any food. Just keep trying and earthworms are allways good for fire eels. i´ve never seen a fire eel refusing earthworms. Frozen bloodworms are also good food but they contain mostly water. If you don´t want your water to get dirty, just defrost they in some water and siff the bloodworms out.

[eel_seeker]

K.O.D those are some awesome rays and your fire eel :headbang2 that looks awesome im still looking for one so far no luck..... how big is your tank that has to be at least 500 gallons.....

[niblit]

I've never seen mine eat anything but he must as he is at least a foot long and still growing I feed blood worms shrimp and sinking shrimp pellets

[killerfish]

just throw the blood worms in don't worry if they fall into the gravel fire eels are good at digging it will burrow around and find them but they love worms krill and shrimp hope it starts eating we'll