also, when you do add your fire eel, make sure there are PVC tubes in the tank...They love to hide, if they can't fine a place to hide they will digg up your gravel or jump out of the tank... I cannot stress this enough, make sure the eel has somewhere it can hide!!!
Few Fire eel questions
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Well we got him home and settled him into his tank, plenty of places to hide.
He was instantly nice and active, investigated literaly every nook and cranny and settled for this ceramic fake hollow log type thing as his home and settled in.
Mrs said jokingly lets see you hand feed him then, so I went and got a block of bloodworm and he fed from my hand right away!
Just lowered the block in front of him, outside the log and he sat there feeding away untill the block defrosted then dragged the whole lot in with him lol.
Dont think I'll have any feeding issues, which was my one fear having read theyre very picky eaters.
Guess he is around 7" a touch smaller than I thought originaly, really hard to judge, but he is full of character.
I'll get some pics up when I can, just dont have a light on this tank atm seem unable to find it as I havnt had this tank set up for years.
Oh one question, are bloodworm a good staple diet for him? or should I try and introduce something else? seems thats all he has eaten in the lfs who had him 8 months they said.
Maybe frozen beafheart as he is happy with frozen food might be a good one to try?
Thanks for the help so far guys, I'll keep you posted, and thanks in advance for any more help or information, oh and to one of the above posters the tank is very tightly seeled with glass tight across the top, with literaly JUST enough room for 2 cables and a small tube one side and a cable the other side.
Oh little edit - just looked in the freezer we have some cichlid mix, artemia and also some black mosquito larves, worth trying those?
He was instantly nice and active, investigated literaly every nook and cranny and settled for this ceramic fake hollow log type thing as his home and settled in.
Mrs said jokingly lets see you hand feed him then, so I went and got a block of bloodworm and he fed from my hand right away!
Just lowered the block in front of him, outside the log and he sat there feeding away untill the block defrosted then dragged the whole lot in with him lol.
Dont think I'll have any feeding issues, which was my one fear having read theyre very picky eaters.
Guess he is around 7" a touch smaller than I thought originaly, really hard to judge, but he is full of character.
I'll get some pics up when I can, just dont have a light on this tank atm seem unable to find it as I havnt had this tank set up for years.
Oh one question, are bloodworm a good staple diet for him? or should I try and introduce something else? seems thats all he has eaten in the lfs who had him 8 months they said.
Maybe frozen beafheart as he is happy with frozen food might be a good one to try?
Thanks for the help so far guys, I'll keep you posted, and thanks in advance for any more help or information, oh and to one of the above posters the tank is very tightly seeled with glass tight across the top, with literaly JUST enough room for 2 cables and a small tube one side and a cable the other side.
Oh little edit - just looked in the freezer we have some cichlid mix, artemia and also some black mosquito larves, worth trying those?
However big the diameter of the oscars mouth is,then the eel might be considered food, unless of course its so long that the eel would intimidate the oscars, then you're fine.
Depending on how large the lima catfish are, they might try to eat him as well, since the eel is so small i think you could stick him in a 20 gallon until he grows larger. Only one way to find out if he is in danger, stick him in there.
The Limas are only small atm, definately not big enough to bother him.
Loving watching him, he has been burying himself in the gravel the last hour in various places in the tank heh.
Loving watching him, he has been burying himself in the gravel the last hour in various places in the tank heh.
