anyone had any luck with breeding morays
- Thread starter zdoo2
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If you mean moray eels, no one besides maybe 10 people have ever bread them. I would probably try anyway because the babies would get you over $100 if you fooled people into believing they were a new species. (they look like leaves)
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Everything we have found on the breeding moray eels indicates that they are not commonly bred in captivity for several reasons...
They will not breed until they are very large and have outgrown most aquariums. Also, morays, with the exception of ribbon eels, are what is called 'gonochoristic'. The female will spawn either as a pair or with several smaller males. At dusk the eggs are released and are basically pelagic. The larval stage of the eel lasts for 6-10 months and so makes it difficult to reproduce in the aquarium.
There are several species of freshwater eels, of the family Anguillidae, that spawn far out in the ocean and release up to 20 million eggs per female. After spawning though, the adults die. The young, called "leptocephali" then travel back to the continental shores where they metamorphose into small eels called 'elvers' that then move into freshwater habitats.
Everything we have found on the breeding moray eels indicates that they are not commonly bred in captivity for several reasons...
They will not breed until they are very large and have outgrown most aquariums. Also, morays, with the exception of ribbon eels, are what is called 'gonochoristic'. The female will spawn either as a pair or with several smaller males. At dusk the eggs are released and are basically pelagic. The larval stage of the eel lasts for 6-10 months and so makes it difficult to reproduce in the aquarium.
There are several species of freshwater eels, of the family Anguillidae, that spawn far out in the ocean and release up to 20 million eggs per female. After spawning though, the adults die. The young, called "leptocephali" then travel back to the continental shores where they metamorphose into small eels called 'elvers' that then move into freshwater habitats.