just out of curosity, if the electric eels can emit electricity throught the water, how do you do water changes or stick you hand in the tank, would you be shocked. these seem interesting creatures and would love to try to raise one someday.
Electric eel breeding
- Thread starter williesax
- Start date
Yes they emit electrical charges, but only by self defense, and by stunning their prey. When making water changes, make sure you DO NOT touch the fish. One kid working in a fish store netted the electric catfish and tried to touch it to put into the bag. He had a rude awakening. Plus the eels live in water that is stagnant, or poor water quality. They breath air, just like lungfish and such.shoefreak03 said:
yea i know there massive and when they get 30 foot you dont handle them and feeding isnt as bad as everyone thinks, accually everything isnt as bad as everyone thinks, and the store might be in flint but were not shure were looking around for buildings in different locations.
they do emmit electricity through the water, and dedpending on the size they can put out enough to nock you back on your ass and give you a concution, but as far as handling them you dont and as far as water changes you net them and put them in another tank or a large bucket, and its easy to get them out of the tank, when there up for air or just chilling out there ussually in the corner of the tang all you do is fish them out just watch out for your hands for being shocked or bit. thanks for all your comments
Good info here so far. "E-eels" are very personable fish and typically differentiate between their owners and other people. I kept one several years ago and I didn't get shocked once for the 3 years that I had it. I would go with the swamp-like pond approach to brreding them. And, with e-eels you're already at an advantage compared to other Gymnotid knives, as all of the other Gymnotids (Electrophorus electricus and the genus Gymnotus make up the gymnotids, there are also several other knife families) are very aggressive towards each other while e-eels can be kept together without problems. Andre, I'm going to shoot you a PM about the e-eels... I'm back in the market for some. 
Zombie thread... this member was only active for 10 days, 16 years ago... doubt it came to fruition. and imagine doing water changes in flint
