Hey guys/gals i've been raising fish for about twelve years now and I just made an account to ask these questions. As the title suggests I saw one at my local fish market under the label giant moray eel. It looked like a very dark shade of green mixed with brown, blue freckle like dots across it's body, about a meter long and was sold to someone for four thousand Us Dollars. The shop owner had it in a shallow 1 meter by 1 meter cement pond and after seeing it I got home and started thinking and read up on it through google and I figured that this community should have a lot more things I can learn.
Parameters of plan
Money is not an object (i'll keep wishing), I do however live on a beach in Southeast Asia
Tank size
I'm not planning on getting married any time soon so I want to convert a part of my house into a giant fishtank, there seems to be quite a few of those on this website and I think it would be interesting. Would a thousand five hundred gallons worth of tank space be enough for the fish to live out the rest of its life? or should I think bigger?
Food
What under god's blue sky am I to feed the thing? I heard it can grow upwards of two meters but after reading around the only thing people seem to say for saltwater feeders is guppies and mollies (obviously no). I also read that feeding freshwater fish to salt ones is bad for the salt-water which in this case is the moray. So my question is, what would be a good feeder fish that can be raised in lets say a large salt-water habitat akin to a pond? . Secondly how much can it eat?
Fishing here is quite good though I mainly catch Bonefish roughly 30 centimetres long 80 if i'm really lucky but I don't see fishing as an absolutely dependable food source
Tankmates
So I understand that Moray's are at the top when it comes to the food chain so to make things short, what will a large moray NOT eat/attack is it like most other fish who don't mess with bigger fish?
General Questions
What should the tank also have? from what I can guess is a cave like structure since that's all I ever see them in on Youtube but is coral necessary?
How fast can I expect the eel to grow assuming I feed it the proper amount of food?
P.S If compounded questions like this are not allowed please forgive my ignorance
Parameters of plan
Money is not an object (i'll keep wishing), I do however live on a beach in Southeast Asia
Tank size
I'm not planning on getting married any time soon so I want to convert a part of my house into a giant fishtank, there seems to be quite a few of those on this website and I think it would be interesting. Would a thousand five hundred gallons worth of tank space be enough for the fish to live out the rest of its life? or should I think bigger?
Food
What under god's blue sky am I to feed the thing? I heard it can grow upwards of two meters but after reading around the only thing people seem to say for saltwater feeders is guppies and mollies (obviously no). I also read that feeding freshwater fish to salt ones is bad for the salt-water which in this case is the moray. So my question is, what would be a good feeder fish that can be raised in lets say a large salt-water habitat akin to a pond? . Secondly how much can it eat?
Fishing here is quite good though I mainly catch Bonefish roughly 30 centimetres long 80 if i'm really lucky but I don't see fishing as an absolutely dependable food source
Tankmates
So I understand that Moray's are at the top when it comes to the food chain so to make things short, what will a large moray NOT eat/attack is it like most other fish who don't mess with bigger fish?
General Questions
What should the tank also have? from what I can guess is a cave like structure since that's all I ever see them in on Youtube but is coral necessary?
How fast can I expect the eel to grow assuming I feed it the proper amount of food?
P.S If compounded questions like this are not allowed please forgive my ignorance
