I have a 14" fire eel, a 6" tire track eel, and a 5" peacock eel in my 240 gallon. The fire eel mostly chills until feeding time. The tire track eel is all over the place - he even eats from the surface. The peacock eel is proving difficult to feed since he doesn't do a good job of seeking out his food and the cichlids in the tank eat it all before he gets any.
Fired Up About Fire Eels!!
- Thread starter Peanut_Power
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Peanut_Power;1975270; said:
Pretty much
i hand fed mine the day after i got it some will take longer to get use to you but really once they smell the food they won't be affraid of your hand try and hand feed it when its under a rock or in a tube or somethin that way the first thing it sees is the food then it sees your hand and learns hands mean food there vary smart creatures Sure do miss mine unfortunately mine died about a week and a half after i bought it
was totally fine then one morning it turned wight got very lethargic then the next day was dead this can happen but for the most part they are pretty hardy once acclimated To breed start with a mud bottom or very fine silt of some kind not sure where you would get itmabye bake pond mud to kill off any bacteria and parasites in the marshes there from they breed in the substrate and fry hatch out and hide in dense vegetation feeding on tiny organisms so for fry food if you are lucky enough to spawn them try green water , the main problem is little is know about there breeding habits they are next to impossible to breed in captivity but it may have been done in ponds in asia where there natural substrate and water type as we'll as possible minerals or weather patterns can be duplicated possibly triggering spawning
killerfish;1976105; said:Sure do miss mine unfortunately mine died about a week and a half after i bought it
It's odd, it seems spiney eels will just up and die for no apparent reason, obviously something causes it but they must be extremely sensitive to water or something.
must be my nitrates were high though like 80ppm or around there ( don't have an accurate test kit ) all other fish were fine my tire track has seen higher nitrates then that and is just fine my fire eels was a little skinny when i bought it how ever just gonna have to get a larger one next timeMudfrog;1976186; said:
I just ordered a tire track from the LFS as they were not able to get any fire eels at the moment. Hopefully it will do much better, nitrates usually don't get too high as the tank is not overstocked and I do 50% WC a week, but I haven't actually tested it in a while.
Haven't even gone yet. Gotta get some stuff together to take to them. Trying to get them set up with ordering for a few vendors from here. . . 
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. dragonfish;1978746; said:
i don't think peanut can fly to the store so its gonna take more then 2 mins