We purchased a small zebra eel about three weeks ago from our local petstore he is about a foot long. HE WONT EAT ANYTHING! we have had him in a quarintine tank for the first two weeks with hypo salt to make sure he is ok before we put him into our big tank. Now we have moved him and raised the salt a little more and he is in a 20 gal all by himself for about a week and he still wont eat we offer him dried krill and raw shrimp and shows no interest in any of it. i know zebra eels can go long periods of time with little or no food but he looks weaker and isnt swimming around much anymore. Any sugestions?
baby zebra eel
- Thread starter Sunrider
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All the changes it's been through, it's no surprise. Are you bouncing food off a string, making it look alive?
can you get ghost shrimp in your area?? if so try a few of those and see if that helps him start eating.
Try soaking some small frozen prawn in garlic guard. They are about ghost shrimp size (unless you can find live ghost shrimp then do that route) and was what finally got my reluctant eels to eat.
Puffer is right on, try to get a thin strand of cloth or something, and tie the shrimp/meat to it and dangle it like you would fishing.
Puffer is right on, try to get a thin strand of cloth or something, and tie the shrimp/meat to it and dangle it like you would fishing.
When feeding ghost shrimp to an animal, you really should gut-load it 1st with something nutritious. Otherwise they are just mostly water, no nutrition in them alone.