Are these a solitary species or can they be kept in groups? thanks
I have three and thinking about adding some more. What is the best decor for these guys?
Yea, guilty as charged
I have a bunch of morays in a brackish aquarium and 3 of them are echidna rhodochiluses. View attachment 1315355 View attachment 1315356 They are courteous to each other and never causes trouble.
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I haven't been active lately but when wes brought in these guys I decided to get back in the hobby. I've read a lot of your posts about different morays being kept in close to near fw. Some people have straight up told you that you're wrong on some threads (even though these fish are native to your country so how would they know better than you? lmao) but we both know better...Yea, guilty as charged
I have a bunch of morays in a brackish aquarium and 3 of them are echidna rhodochiluses. View attachment 1315355 View attachment 1315356 They are courteous to each other and never causes trouble.
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heh heh, thank you! Here in our country, we have a saying, "lain lubuk lain ikannya" (different waterhole, different fish). I had an online discussion with a fish expert from WWM long ago, and was informed that morays of same species often has differences depending on population, so, for example, in my country, baby E. Nebulosa does enter brackish rivers and estuaries (though I assume that they will migrate to the open sea as the grow older), while in populations of other countries, it is full marine and will die in less than full seawater.I haven't been active lately but when wes brought in these guys I decided to get back in the hobby. I've read a lot of your posts about different morays being kept in close to near fw. Some people have straight up told you that you're wrong on some threads (even though these fish are native to your country so how would they know better than you? lmao) but we both know better...
Indeed that is a good practice which is what I do I never advise anyone to do such things...heh heh, thank you! Here in our country, we have a saying, "lain lubuk lain ikannya" (different waterhole, different fish). I had an online discussion with a fish expert from WWM long ago, and was informed that morays of same species often has differences depending on population, so, for example, in my country, baby E. Nebulosa does enter brackish rivers and estuaries (though I assume that they will migrate to the open sea as the grow older), while in populations of other countries, it is full marine and will die in less than full seawater.
As for E. Rhodochilus, my fish procurers never encountered them in the open sea (never far from beaches), it's always in the estuaries or even higher up in the river. Same with G. Polyuranodon, in fact they never encountered this fish in the beaches as well. That's why we're keeping them in brackish and fresh. But yes, if necessary they can be acclimatised to full SW. But it will defeat the purpose of owning a BW/FW moray
Other moray species also exhibited remarkable adaptative behavior, like this polkadot moray found to be alive and well in England despite being kept in full FW for a long time.
https://www.practicalfishkeeping.co.uk/features/articles/yellow-spotted-moray-echidna-xanthospilos
So, indeed they have adaptation ability which are higher than we're giving credits for. But again it is all depending on the individual fish, so certainly I am not advising anybody to start plunging their morays to BW or FW anytime soon!