Fire eels are dieing!

[artman540]

Hi I'm new here kinda, been lurking for some time.
I recently purchased three, six inch fire eels from my LFS.
I have had them for about two weeks and last night one of them was swimming wobbly and kept going upside down, looping itself over things.
I woke up this morning and it was being eaten by my apple snail.
I did a water test and everything was fine, pristine water.
Now another of my eels is doing the same thing.
I need help solving this mystery before I lose the third one. These fish cost me $25 each and I've grown quite attached to them.

 

[Zfishies]

whats there diet?and Welcome!

 

[artman540]

Frozen bloodworms.

 

[Loves severums]

what tank size and what the temp?

 

[artman540]

35g with eheim pro. Eels were/are 6" water temp is 82.

 

[jclyde13]

Is the tank cycled? btw, if the remaining eels live, you are going to need a much larger tank soon.

 

[artman540]

Its been cycled for a year now and i have a 400g tank I'm buying from LFS that went out of business. Gonna stock it with fire eel, two oscars, arowana, motoro stingray, and possibly a peacock bass.

 

[Just Toby]

I always wonder when people post "pristine water" I want to see the readings for Ammonia, PH, Nitrite and Nitrate.

Having said that I suspect these are wild caught and full of parasites, they often take a lot to get eating and who knows how long they sat in poor water without eating.

I recently went to a very good lfs and they had dieing Fire Eels which were obviously wild caught and suffering.

 

[Wet Whiskers]

Have you measured the ammonia, nitrites and nitrates? What's the pH? When did you do your last water change? Any chance there could have been some shock? Any external damage? (Sorry for the barrage of questions, but need the answers so we can try to actually help.)

Edit: Just saw this post is a little old. Hope the little guys made it.