Eel growth

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FlammingWoodChuck said:
cool. I am looking for another eel. I am looking at a FireTrack or a FW moray eel and now an american eel.
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Yeah, they are a very hardy fish, so as long as you got water and some food for them, they should do just fine...

These eels are also good at surviving on little oxygen, and moving over land for short periods of time. One time, my mom came down from upstairs and asked me if i put a snake on the bathroom floor to scare her, so I ran upstairs only to find my eel on the floor wrapped in a cover of dust and hair, Gave him a quick rinse under the faucet and he was good to go. Another time, during the night, my bro was coming upstairs to go to bed, and at the top of the stairs, he said he put his foot down and felt something slimy, when he did he lifted up his foot only to find he stepped on my eel, so he scooped him up in a net and put him back in the tank. Guppy has a good story of how his Amer. Eel, jumped out of his tank and ended up in his neighbors pool!
 
Aren't American eels like our UK eels, they spawn in the Sargasso sea and not in fresh water, they move to the sea and change shape into their silver form.
 
Richie said:
Aren't American eels like our UK eels, they spawn in the Sargasso sea and not in fresh water, they move to the sea and change shape into their silver form.
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Yeah, I thinlk they are the same species actually...
 
I don't know how the one that went next door and ended up in their pool survived, I don't think they added chlorine but it was still city water, Oakland, Ca., I figure it wasn't in there very long.
 
wism_chan said:
Is the eel dangerous ?
never keep before....
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Dangerous as to a person?
My eel is generally nocturnal, so he only comes out at night, or when it is relativley dark in the tank. So, if you stick your hand in the tank he wont lunge at you go and bite off your finger. Usually when I feed him now, I hand feed him, unless I give him live foods, but when I do, ocasionaally he may give me a nip on the finger, but before he even bites he realizes I am not the food and goes after what I have for him. And he wont go eat all of your fish on you, or nip at any fins or stuff like that. If the fish is to big, he wont go after it, well atleast that is how mine acts now. They are also pretty easy to handle as adults. On the coast, atleast where I live, many bait shops sell eel as bait, or fisherman catch them themselves and chop them up to use. So, its not like the eel will tear your hand off, but he may just try to bite you if you got some food or wave or finger around like a fish/worm....not that I have tried this :grinno:
 
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