Fired Up About Fire Eels!!

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Peanut_Power;1966113; said:
Thanks, still trying to decide if I want to risk this really. I would love to have a group of them. That would be most awesome! :D

Its seems blood worms or any type of worm period are their prefered foods huh? Dang. I've got most of my fish on brine shrimp and pellets at the moment. Can't find any good sources of mysis yet...:( One of the LFS gets in 'black worms' but they are really nasty ol' tubiflex. Not cool. Don't really trust the frozen bloodworms around here either. Might give them a try though.
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Try ghost shrimp or market shrimp. They will even eat small guppies. You can put them in groups while still young but when they reach the 20+ mark the agression begins with each other or other spiny eels.
 
I haven't even seen ghost shrimp for sale in a long time. Sucks. I just need to bulk order some, and breed my own. Guppies and Ghost Shrimp. That would be awesome. :D
 
yep and eazy to do once you get ghost shrimp to breed they will do the rest of the work from then on out

frozen blood worms are pretty safe to feed usually no risk of parasites just look for a good frozen brand if the store has its own frozen blood worms in zip lock baggies then i would be a little worried

Groups can be done when young but for long term a very large tank will be needed or a group of 4-5 would be needed which would require a large tank they do become territorial with age how ever it is reported that they can do fine together as adults if provided with plenty of space and cover
 
I need to set up a 55gal, buy about 1000 ghost shrimp, and about 100 guppies and toss them in there. That should be a pretty good breeding stock. When I had peacock eels they didn't really seem to pay much attention to the ghost shrimp. Perhaps their mouths were too small?

Frozen Bloodworms aren't hard to find. Just finding a quality brand is difficult. San Fran. Bay is a fairly good brand, but would rather find another brand if possible. I love Piscine Energetics Mysis Shrimp, wish they made Bloodworms too.

Tank space is no problem. :) Although, should I start them off in a smaller tank first? Then move them up? I know some fish can be skittish when small and put in a larger tank.
 
honestly had both tire track and fire eel. my tire track was the bee's knee's the fire eel kinda lame in comparison, far lazier was slower growing less personality. unfortunately the tire jumped
 
Peanut_Power;1971942; said:
I need to set up a 55gal, buy about 1000 ghost shrimp, and about 100 guppies and toss them in there. That should be a pretty good breeding stock. When I had peacock eels they didn't really seem to pay much attention to the ghost shrimp. Perhaps their mouths were too small?

Frozen Bloodworms aren't hard to find. Just finding a quality brand is difficult. San Fran. Bay is a fairly good brand, but would rather find another brand if possible. I love Piscine Energetics Mysis Shrimp, wish they made Bloodworms too.

Tank space is no problem. :) Although, should I start them off in a smaller tank first? Then move them up? I know some fish can be skittish when small and put in a larger tank.
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Wow you're that desperate?! I have problems breeding ghost shrimp so I have to buy some from my LFS...
 
Peanut_Power;1948799; said:
Nice!!! Not sure if I want to go with black sand for a black fish though. Hmm....

Do you guys think dropping the water level 3 to 5" will help keep them in the tank? They would be going in a 125gal. Has sand, some driftwood, rock, planning on adding some PVC possibly. Only problem is the eggcrate lids. :( Need to find a way to get around this. If they are 10" would they still be able to fit through the egg crate?
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dropping the water level to 3-5 inches helps too.
 
Not really desperate per say, just would rather get a large group and not have to fart around with getting new ghost shrimp/guppies each time I ran out. Plus that would look cool seeing that many ghost shrimp running around the tank! I could just put the fire eels in there with them and leave 'em alone. Almost a self-sustaining tank, would just have to feed the shrimp. :)

Yeah, my water level is already down about 3" right now as it is. :) So I think I'll go that route! :D Thanks!
 
So when are you getting the eel?
 
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