I recently purchased 3x 4.5" electric eels, I received them on Tuesday. I have had them for 3 days now and have not been able to get them to eat. I have given them:
All of the previous I have put in before night where it is dark in their room and leave them in there all night. None of the eels seem to be interested if anything they run away from everything including the ghost shrimp and feeder fish.
The tank is running at 85F (29C) I am using the same water source as I keep my discus. They are currently in a 20L and doing water changes once to twice a day depending on if I have left food in there and trying not to kill off all the feeders in there since I know the eels can live in subpar water.
Does anyone have any suggestions? Typically I would not go searching this early for info on this since I know it takes time once you receive new fish, but they are pretty skinny and the feeders don't seem to get shocked so I am concerned they are too skinny. I have messaged the seller, but still waiting on a reply form them.
- mirco mealworms
- tiny pieces of raw shrimp
- live ghost shrimp are in there
- live feeder fish are in there
All of the previous I have put in before night where it is dark in their room and leave them in there all night. None of the eels seem to be interested if anything they run away from everything including the ghost shrimp and feeder fish.
The tank is running at 85F (29C) I am using the same water source as I keep my discus. They are currently in a 20L and doing water changes once to twice a day depending on if I have left food in there and trying not to kill off all the feeders in there since I know the eels can live in subpar water.
Does anyone have any suggestions? Typically I would not go searching this early for info on this since I know it takes time once you receive new fish, but they are pretty skinny and the feeders don't seem to get shocked so I am concerned they are too skinny. I have messaged the seller, but still waiting on a reply form them.