Fire Eel not eating
- Thread starter Yoda1
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What I did for my new one that I got a couple months ago was to give him a little bit of everything at once. At first, mine wasn't eating either. I put in a mix of frozen mysis shrimp, frozen bloodworms, frozen beef heart, live earthworms and frozen market shrimp. It eventually settled on live earthworms and I've been feeding them to it ever since. Eventually, they should start eating a variety. My bigger fire eels both eat a pretty large variety of different stuff.
Probably gotta settle in but try feeding bloodworms or live worms (black/eartheworms) at night in couple of days.
Oh, forgot to mention that if you go this route make sure that you vacuum out all of the uneaten stuff.
Mine went 6 months before it ate.... now its fatter then my arm. You have time
I got mine and it ate the same day got him yesterday I fed him blood worms a couple hours after I got him he was eating also would swim by my hand to eat hes 6inch try puting it by him with your hands
mine ate the 1st day I put him in the 55 gallon and would beg for food every time I came near the tank until I moved everybody to a 100 gallon then he hid for 5 days and then came and ate then hid for a couple more days finally after over a month he is starting to return to his former self
Fire took an earthworm last night.
Phew - relieved. Almost 2 weeks later
Phew - relieved. Almost 2 weeks later