Fire Eel

[STAR]

Does anyone there keeping fire eel? What does it eat? I am keeping one now but don't seem to eat anything. LFS recommended bloodworm but I can't feed bloodworm as it dirty the tank water easily. Is there any other recommendation?

 

[stereo]

any pics?

what is fire eel? any site got introduction on them?

sound interesting

 

[WyldFya]

This belongs in a different section. Fire eels are best fed beefheart of bloodworms. I would use bloodworms if I were you. Just use the search function or google, and you'll come up with a few hits. I wouldn't worry about the water quality too much. The eel will eat a very large chunk, and most of your other fish will also try to steal the bloodworms.

 

[Steve_89]

any pics?

what is fire eel? any site got introduction on them?

sound interesting

Mastacembelus erythrotaenia

Put that in google and check it out...

Cool fish.

 

[dodgefreak8]

here is my 16" fire ell. He eats earth worms. I would feed blood worms if its smaller...

 

[stereo]

is there an eel that will not grow too big?
thinking keeping 1 eel in my tank

any recommendations? i do not want an eel that grow huge and eat up all my fishes~

 

[M|L]

I had one that eats anything.

shrimp, krill, worms (favorite), and even feeder fish.

 

[Hakon]

Agree with Ming, they eats anything.But when I first got the fire eel, it didn't eat. I tried with live bloodworms, and that really helped him eat.

 

[Steve_89]

Nice eel dodgefreak

 

[K.O.D]

My 26" Fire eel eats whole prawn, mussel whitebait and earthworms, he was the same at first and would only eat bloodworms, but bloodworms will not sustain his growth.
We recently got a tyretrack that was exactly the same, try soaking chopped prawns in defrosted bloodworm and feeding them that.