Fire eel food?

[Ollie1233]

Hi guys I read a post about feeding fire eel chicken? What do you all think? Would you say cooked or raw and what else has anyone ever heard is ok to feed them?

 

[chanathon]

eh i dont know about chicken, but when I had my fire eel i fed it market prawn.

 

[RD.]

Chicken is a poor choice of amino acids/fatty acids. Feed krill, shrimp, tilapia, etc. Fish eating fish eat - (drum roll please) FISH.

 

[Ollie1233]

Yea feeding bloodworm at the minute but he's getting quite big and don't know if it's the best choice anymore will give chicken a miss then cheers and try prawn and maybe earthworms I've also heard

 

[Drstrangelove]

I've seen fire eels eat those things (earthworms and shrimp), but they also will eat chunks of fish, if the pieces are properly sized to be swallowed whole.

You have a lot of options.

 

[Fish Tank Travis]

Yea feeding bloodworm at the minute but he's getting quite big and don't know if it's the best choice anymore will give chicken a miss then cheers and try prawn and maybe earthworms I've also heard

I currently feed my fire eels cut up frozen shrimp, cut up frozen tilapia, frozen krill, live red wigglers, live night crawlers, and occasionally frozen bloodworms. They eat all of this, but won't touch pellets. My largest is about 16-17", medium is about 14-15", and smallest is 11-12". None of them have a problem with any of these foods. The other night, I fed six large night crawlers with the frozen food and my largest fire eel scarfed down all six before the others even had a chance.

 

[Ollie1233]

I currently feed my fire eels cut up frozen shrimp, cut up frozen tilapia, frozen krill, live red wigglers, live night crawlers, and occasionally frozen bloodworms. They eat all of this, but won't touch pellets. My largest is about 16-17", medium is about 14-15", and smallest is 11-12". None of them have a problem with any of these foods. The other night, I fed six large night crawlers with the frozen food and my largest fire eel scarfed down all six before the others even had a chance.

Yea mines the same greedy as hell I've got an elephant nose and have to hand feed him while trying to distract Neil the eel so he doesn't try and have it all haha