atinda marble swamp eel

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6freddy8

Candiru
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Jan 14, 2009
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i need any info u guys cant tell me about them..i cant find anything really about them on the net other than its for sale on aquabid ...so any thing will be helpfull or send me some links of pics of adults or anything just as much info
thanks
 
i dont no its latin name all i now is that its from peru i so a pic once but i cant find it any more see if what i wrote helps in any info
thanks
 
i tried google aslo but nothing all that pops up is that snookn21 is selling it on aquabid but that all i can find..i saw a pic a while back of 1 and it looked like a nice looking eel so when i saw my lfs list of fish he can order i had him order me it but it really thin 1/8thick and about 9inch long but thats all i know about it that its from peru and its called atina eel
but there got to be someone one here that can piont me in the wright direction
thanks agin
 
Own one. Amazing fish.

They love to burrow and ambush fish. Mines about 7 inches or so and loves guppies.

Very peaceful. Never seen it nip or give any fish beyond feeders issue. They're actually almost too chill, they're not terribly lazy activity wise but I've seen snails crawl over them before, lol.

Quite personable and intelligent too. Will greedily eat from your fingers if you're holding a bloodworm cube. Will bite on and then thrash about.

Escape artists however. Be careful.
 
There's a very similar fish in SE Asia, yes?
We had an about 14-16" one of these (either the SA or Asian version) in the '90s -they were all over the Vancouver area shops for a couple of months, and I've not seen them again ('cept for market in Phnom Penh).
The thing was ferocious. Out and about reasonably often and killed and ate anything that wasn't looking for it, including a 6" red snakehead. We found the head in the morning....
Very bright, very interesting. Very cool to watch it hunt tetras.
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