A tip on feeding fire eels

[titanfish]

iv had my fire eel for a couple of months now its around 13''s. at first it would only take live food, garden worms or river shrimp and for some reason would not take frozen bloodworm or muscles(apologies for my spelling) or prawns but would readily handfeed on garden worms. so what i tried was i cut the muscles and the prawns in the shape of worm and tried handfeeding with a bit of wiggling, took the food immediately, then i tried different shapes of the food, took it imediately. so from now on every time time i feed him, i cut the first peice in the shape of worm then the rest any shape.

iv also noticed that fire eels grow confidence with their owner with feeding. mine always comes out as i go next to the tank now, follows my finger everywhere.

I LOVE FIRE EELS, WOULD REALY RECCOMEND THEM TO ANYONE

 

[jojo_nature]

My fire eel will eat beef heart but only if i cut it up in long slim bit's like worm's , worm's are definately his favourite.

 

[titanfish]

do you just dig up garden worms or do you have a worm culture. i was thinking of setting up a worm culture coz got fed up of constantly diggin up worms lol. would start the culture of by buying a good batch of worms from my local fishing.t.s

 

[DiverDan]

that's an interesting tidbit. I like that your tricking him.

I'm curious how to do the worm culture.

 

[jojo_nature]

titanfishdo you just dig up garden worms or do you have a worm culture. i was thinking of setting up a worm culture coz got fed up of constantly diggin up worms lol. would start the culture of by buying a good batch of worms from my local fishing.t.s

I use this old bin for my worm's ,i did buy a 1kg bag of worm's from a fish bait shop about febuary and put some in .I have a compost heap that i turn now & again & any baby worm's get chucked in the bin .I use my bin worm's as emergency food for when i can't be bothered to search the compost heap or under plant pot's .

 

[titanfish]

I use this old bin for my worm's ,i did buy a 1kg bag of worm's from a fish bait shop about febuary and put some in .I have a compost heap that i turn now & again & any baby worm's get chucked in the bin .I use my bin worm's as emergency food for when i can't be bothered to search the compost heap or under plant pot's .

thanks jojo, i think i will now use a bin for my worm culture, although im not sure when im gonna start it though, tooo busy at the moment with university and work

 

[titanfish]

that's an interesting tidbit. I like that your tricking him.

I'm curious how to do the worm culture.

im not exactly sure on how to do the culture, but i think it should be pretty straight forward i think, i read about it quite some time ago, i'm gona google it when i have time

 

[bfhslilred93]

i used to feed mine with a gravel vac. i had 2 put one end down next to his cave and the bloodworms got sucked into the other end

 

[BIGtyme]

thanks for the tip, and about the worm culture, just throw some worms and dirt in a bin?

 

[titanfish]

i used to feed mine with a gravel vac. i had 2 put one end down next to his cave and the bloodworms got sucked into the other end

lol very creative