Looking to get a freshwater eel .

  • We are currently upgrading MFK. thanks! -neo
I'd say maybe one of the swamp eels which get pretty big...stuff like spiney eels might be too passive IMO
 
Electric eels are bad ass, but if your looking for a real badass crazy cool looking fish an ee isn't for you
Try a aba aba knife fish they act like real eels not spiny eels especially wen they hunt or attack their prey they swirl pretty cool take a min to check this out and let me know wat you think of them
http://m.youtube.com/index?desktop_uri=/&gl=US#/watch?v=m3QkRFfY5hU
 
an aba aba is a horrible idea. as the owner of an aba I would NEVER put it with a FH... or a RT... imo your tank is not going to co-habitat much else if anything and if the RT and FH don't pair off you will have aggression issues eventually. and Cichlids and spiney eels are a huge NO NO... true eels (which are fairly uncommon) don't seem to do well with territorial tank-mates, just slightly aggressive ones.. and there is a big difference in aggression vs territorial.
 
an aba aba is a horrible idea. as the owner of an aba I would NEVER put it with a FH... or a RT... imo your tank is not going to co-habitat much else if anything and if the RT and FH don't pair off you will have aggression issues eventually. and Cichlids and spiney eels are a huge NO NO... true eels (which are fairly uncommon) don't seem to do well with territorial tank-mates, just slightly aggressive ones.. and there is a big difference in aggression vs territorial.

IN general I agree, especially with those aggressive cichlid tankmates. However, the "cichlids and spiny eels are a huge no no" bit is a huge over-generalisation. Most SA cichlids (sevs, uaru, keyholes, geos etc, and all the dwarfs) do in fact co-exist very happily with spinys. It's just the aggressive CA cihclids that I would not advise with eels. I'm sure that's what you meant really, but I felt I should set the record straight for other readers.
 
I just wanted to know what was a good eel that might be ok for my tank. I have a 90 gallon with no fish in it. I do alot of research on freshwater fish and whatever I am interested in I just use this to give me ideas, but thank u for the info. With enough hiding places and good water changes I've found you can keep a pretty wide variety of fish together. You just have to really monitor and start them off small together when they get full size you might have to remove a few, but fish can adapt.
 
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