fire eels
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And they are carnivorous in nature so anything meaty will be relished. Fire eels can also be taught to handfeed. Make sure your tank is well covered as all spiny eels are excellent escape artists. Quite suicidal in general.
And they are carnivorous in nature so anything meaty will be relished. Fire eels can also be taught to handfeed. Make sure your tank is well covered as all spiny eels are excellent escape artists. Quite suicidal in general.
Fire eels are awsome, but they can easily get up to 3' long and will eat,eat,eat! It will be at the front of the tank beggin for food. If it's in with a slower fish, it will eat all the food. Had one for bout 2 yrs. had to re-home him...moved out of state. He went from about 3" to 18" in that time. I'd say it would need at least a 180g in time.
scott s;4796279; said:
+1....very well put, mine is now over 12" and eats fish bigger than his head, he is twice as thick as a broom handle. He is a pig!
36" or bigger.. diet: earth worms, krill, live ghost shrimp, shrimp,blood worms.fishmanbob87;4792375; said:
The sticky that Lupin posted a link to is actually around 4" off on the fire eel's maximum size (the sizes given were actually just based on the person's own experience.... and they're also 8" off on the TT eel...).
I don't think so, at least not by much. There have been two members here with eels of each species (one had a TT, the other a fire) at around the 40" mark, and both eels looked to be pretty equal in girth from what I could tell.scott s;4797615; said:
Females of either get nice and thick.. the males tend to stay smaller and more slender. either way your still talking 24"+ fish which will require approx 180 gallons + fully grown. either species can be challengeing for any keeper.