Anybody have really large morays?

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Very cool, I am seriously thinking about changing to salt water and getting a moray :)

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It all depends on preference, I have a mix of cichlids and morays.
 
I had a 4ft spotted and two greens that were 3ft. They are at the top of my all time favorite fish. They were wild caught and adapted to captivity very easily. They are jumpers though. I lost all three of them from jumping on separate occasions. My spotted was the last one and made it out of a hole that was about half his size. If their head can squeeze through, they can get their body through.
 
I had a 4ft spotted and two greens that were 3ft. They are at the top of my all time favorite fish. They were wild caught and adapted to captivity very easily. They are jumpers though. I lost all three of them from jumping on separate occasions. My spotted was the last one and made it out of a hole that was about half his size. If their head can squeeze through, they can get their body through.

Oh wow, that sucks extremely! :( Have you got any pics of them?

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Very cool, I am seriously thinking about changing to salt water and getting a moray :)

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*most* Morays are great for starters... When my mom gets over her fear of snakes (let's hope she does :) ) I am going to get a snowflake moray, which aren't very big.


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I have a 3 foot Fimbriated moray and I gave my Tesselata to my cousin when he hit about 3.5 foot and was as thick as my forearm. The tesse now lives in a 500 gal cube tank my cousin keeps in his basement.

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*most* Morays are great for starters... When my mom gets over her fear of snakes (let's hope she does :) ) I am going to get a snowflake moray, which aren't very big.


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I want either a snowflake or a G.tile, too, but changing to saltwater is expensive and complicated, and I'm just a teen :(

I have a 3 foot Fimbriated moray and I gave my Tesselata to my cousin when he hit about 3.5 foot and was as thick as my forearm. The tesse now lives in a 500 gal cube tank my cousin keeps in his basement.

Oh yes, that's what I'm talking about! Absolutely awesome,thanks for sharing!:)

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I had a nearly three foot black edge. I regret getting rid of him when we were converting to a reef. New owner informed me he died during our huge ice storm with long term power outages :(. We had a generator and that wouldn't have happened. Makes me mad.

Anyway. Here are a couple old pics of him. He wasn't as big yet in these pics as when we sold him. That's a huge decorator crab below him. He eventually ate it.
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I want to get a zebra for my 125 after seeing a dive video with a nearly 5' one eating slipper lobsters in Hawaii. I went to an lfs downtown once and they had a 6'+ Tessellata in a tank with a giant emperor angel. The owner of the store said that was the only fish it wouldn't eat.


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