36" Fire Eel move...

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Very nice! my big one has a similar giraffe-like pattern and more subdue colors then my 2 smaller guys =D Beautiful fish! Hope it's enjoying it's new home! and only 2 yrs old.. Just a baby still! Everytime someone tells me "they don't get that big!" I'm officially sending the link to this. Just like I forward Aks's TT eel pic to people who tell me TT's don't get more 'n 2'

Aks a heavily saturated pillowcase. I'de say cotton if you can get a nice one cheap. Long as he doesn't freak to bad should be about as safe as you can go to move these big guys. I am not looking forward to moveing my fire eels soon even at the biggest being 24" range. they pack alot of power. But something they can't see threw and prepping w/ handling pre-move should help. I can coax my guys 1/2 in a net ( they're to big to fit in it all the way anymore lol) and let them swim out freely and just manipulate them like that now and then. I'de start working with him and the pillowcase now to get him use to being handled abit before the move. should make it alot less stressful for both of you.

Simons video reconfirmed for myself "teaching" my fish prior to that size is an assest. But I have a very small collection and spend alot of time interacting with them. Not saying Simon did anything wrong. But a fish that large to move prolly woulda be alot easier if the fish was even comfortable with your hands gently guiding them into a bag/net/container ect. I've wrapped large plecos in clean towels before for movement, much like blind-folding a horse. So something that is opaque at the least seems to give no ideas for "escape" and causes minimal thrashing. Even a large beach-towel rigged like a sling and wrapped much as they do /w sharks, dolphins ect on a smaller scale would potentially be a wise idea. closeing the top around and sewing the front and back edges at the sides allowing some holes/leaks for water drainage to do a quick lift and dump into the new tank would be feasable and ideal i think in such an application. any way you'll be pulling some slim coating, but minimal stress = a quicker rebound. Dim lighting and a calm energy also crazy as it sounds seems to help. depending on the amount of help you have you may also consider just capping the PVC tube he chills in and lifting it out fish and all and setting it into his new tank or slideing him out that way. getting a tube of the right size and fitting screw caps onto it. cap one end calmly.. cap the other. Not sure about how much it would weigh. But if done quick the fish should be in and out in a matter of minutes with little fuss. and little to no tank disturbance. either way if he hugs his hidey spot alot. useing it to manipulate him into a pillowcase would be at least alot less stressful then pulling everything out and trying to net him out I would surmise.

yep I ponder way to much about my fishes stress and happiness..
 
MonsterMinis;3787872; said:
Very nice! my big one has a similar giraffe-like pattern and more subdue colors then my 2 smaller guys =D Beautiful fish! Hope it's enjoying it's new home! and only 2 yrs old.. Just a baby still! Everytime someone tells me "they don't get that big!" I'm officially sending the link to this. Just like I forward Aks's TT eel pic to people who tell me TT's don't get more 'n 2'

Aks a heavily saturated pillowcase. I'de say cotton if you can get a nice one cheap. Long as he doesn't freak to bad should be about as safe as you can go to move these big guys. I am not looking forward to moveing my fire eels soon even at the biggest being 24" range. they pack alot of power. But something they can't see threw and prepping w/ handling pre-move should help. I can coax my guys 1/2 in a net ( they're to big to fit in it all the way anymore lol) and let them swim out freely and just manipulate them like that now and then. I'de start working with him and the pillowcase now to get him use to being handled abit before the move. should make it alot less stressful for both of you.

Simons video reconfirmed for myself "teaching" my fish prior to that size is an assest. But I have a very small collection and spend alot of time interacting with them. Not saying Simon did anything wrong. But a fish that large to move prolly woulda be alot easier if the fish was even comfortable with your hands gently guiding them into a bag/net/container ect. I've wrapped large plecos in clean towels before for movement, much like blind-folding a horse. So something that is opaque at the least seems to give no ideas for "escape" and causes minimal thrashing. Even a large beach-towel rigged like a sling and wrapped much as they do /w sharks, dolphins ect on a smaller scale would potentially be a wise idea. closeing the top around and sewing the front and back edges at the sides allowing some holes/leaks for water drainage to do a quick lift and dump into the new tank would be feasable and ideal i think in such an application. any way you'll be pulling some slim coating, but minimal stress = a quicker rebound. Dim lighting and a calm energy also crazy as it sounds seems to help. depending on the amount of help you have you may also consider just capping the PVC tube he chills in and lifting it out fish and all and setting it into his new tank or slideing him out that way. getting a tube of the right size and fitting screw caps onto it. cap one end calmly.. cap the other. Not sure about how much it would weigh. But if done quick the fish should be in and out in a matter of minutes with little fuss. and little to no tank disturbance. either way if he hugs his hidey spot alot. useing it to manipulate him into a pillowcase would be at least alot less stressful then pulling everything out and trying to net him out I would surmise.

yep I ponder way to much about my fishes stress and happiness..
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Appreciate the response........I have seen simon viewing thread-But refuses to give input.......So thanks once again for said info-


For my situation.I have no problem letting my tube float to top of water with eel in-I use to due this for maitnence all the time-So he familar with that....I can also cap the end off with my hands without problem.....

My main problem will be placing and taking the big guy out of a larger insulated cooler that I will have to use for transport to my 500 gallon which is located about a 20 min drive....
I figure I will place his tube in cooler.And just simply lift him up and gently let him slide out into pillow case....And just sit him into big tank.

My eel will surely either break my tank or knock himself stupid if I did the same thing in video....I did something similar with the last pics I took of him-And will never stress my Eel like that again....


Once again-Thanks for the advice.....
 
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