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hey guys i was just wonderin if u guys knew any site that may be able to help me identify my eel..my friend gave it to me n its pretty big n its with my wolf..he ate 1 of my clown loaches n made me mad so i wanna get rid of it..if i had my flowerhorn i wouldve thrown it in there..so ya.. ne help? thnx in advanced. FW BTW
FishHeadSoup
05-25-2006, 1:23 PM
why dont you post a pic here?
im sure somebody will be able to help you then....
rumblesushi
05-25-2006, 1:35 PM
so what we have to go on the ID is... it's an eel? :D
Stone Like Fish
05-25-2006, 6:00 PM
pictures and a description would be much apreaciated ;)
HERE are some pictures..sorry the quality its not too good..the eel wont let me take a clear shot of it..
kody1192
05-26-2006, 2:31 PM
that looks like the same pic 3 times haha. it might be a tire track eel but i cant tell try to take a pic from the side
rumblesushi
05-26-2006, 2:42 PM
interesting, it's definitely a spiny eel, not sure what type. It's not a tiretrack, they have patterns pretty much all over the sides, not those black studs with a yellow outline that yours has. It's a nice eel, some species of mastacembelus, no idea which.
HOw big is it?
Well, there is a lot of different Mastacembelus species, and not many of these are common in aquarium. Many fish stores have rare species without know its name.
Two common spiney eels are Mastacembelus favus and M. armatus. But yours doesn't look like some of them. I think yours are pretty rare and hard to identify, never seen one with such spots. I would also like to know its size.
rumblesushi
05-26-2006, 3:24 PM
I have a pretty rare one too, mastacembelus mastacembelus. I don't know of anyone else with this eel. It's yellow brown with mottled tiger stripes.
Need a full side veiw with the dorsal and anal fins in focus to be sure but from the markings it is possibly a Mastacembelus oatesii, they reach 15" and are from Myanmar, the head should be porportianately broader and shorter than peacock eel's which they are occasionaly imported with. The caudal fin will only have 21-22 rays if this is the right species.
the length i think is about a lil over a foot or so
aite..ill try to post a better picture
USMCtanker
05-28-2006, 8:51 AM
ya once u get a side shot we can tell u for sure
mastacembelus eels can be very different in pattern and in colour. The armatus for example can be dark brown but also be light sand coloured brown. It depends on in what area of the river it´s been caught.
your eel is a mastacembelus armatus. on the interet there´s allways the same pattern but they have different patterns.