We have had them for 2.5 years now. They came from Petzone in San Diego mail order the summer of 2015 at about 1' ($25 each) and from Sam aka fishonlinerus, who sold them as TT but they came in as black spot. I prefer TT over black spot but didn't bother trying to do something about it. These five have been doing very well. Only one black spot is stuck at around 1.5'. The other 4 appear to exceed 2'. They love their Ziegler pellets, not too fond of cut thawed fish.
Seem to be mostly peaceful with each other. There is an occasional commotion and boulder rocking and moving but it's hard to tell what's happening in between and behind all these boulders on the bottom, plus there are 5 Amur catfish in there too that have eel-like bodies. In any case, the eels don't appear to bear any fight wounds as far as I have been able to observe. One TT has some white uneven areas around the edges of its tail but it has always had them. IDK what to make of it. Also TT's are so dark, that the patterns is almost invisible, to our regret.
Had one more black spot that died unexpectedly about a year ago for an unknown to me reason at ~2'.
Also there were several fire eels, probably 3-4 over time but these were very hard to feed and even with proper feeding on lots of bloodworms and cut fish they didn't last for me - started either spinning or floating and perished. I am done with fire eels. Have tried perhaps a dozen over 10 years and never was able to keep one long term.
Seem to be mostly peaceful with each other. There is an occasional commotion and boulder rocking and moving but it's hard to tell what's happening in between and behind all these boulders on the bottom, plus there are 5 Amur catfish in there too that have eel-like bodies. In any case, the eels don't appear to bear any fight wounds as far as I have been able to observe. One TT has some white uneven areas around the edges of its tail but it has always had them. IDK what to make of it. Also TT's are so dark, that the patterns is almost invisible, to our regret.
Had one more black spot that died unexpectedly about a year ago for an unknown to me reason at ~2'.
Also there were several fire eels, probably 3-4 over time but these were very hard to feed and even with proper feeding on lots of bloodworms and cut fish they didn't last for me - started either spinning or floating and perished. I am done with fire eels. Have tried perhaps a dozen over 10 years and never was able to keep one long term.
