Has anyone kept a fresh water snowflake eel(GYMNOTHORAX TILE)? I had one before but, he died and got white stuff all around him . How do you take care of them?
FRESH WATER SNOWFLAKE EEL
- Thread starter TONSOFOSCAR
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They are not freshwater fish. They require large quantities of marine salt in their water. see here
http://wetwebmedia.com/FWSubWebIndex/fwmorayeels.htm
http://wetwebmedia.com/FWSubWebIndex/fwmorayeels.htm
piranha45 said:
Listen to p45..
As you can tell by the number of posts he has, he happens to know everything..
LOL but he is right. They can live in freshwater when they are young for a short time but will soon require a brackish enviroment.
That WetWeb Media article is slightly misleading in that G. tile, across most of its range, is typically a denizen of estuary mouths (occasionally foraying into full fresh and marine waters); however, optimal salinity brackets remain uncertain (and likely vary between regional populations).
Aquarists have had success with all of the following salinity ranges:
- 1.008-1.012
- 1.005 +/- 0.003; "absolute min. 1.002"
- "when adult: 1.015-1.021"
Aquarists have had success with all of the following salinity ranges:
- 1.008-1.012
- 1.005 +/- 0.003; "absolute min. 1.002"
- "when adult: 1.015-1.021"
I know alot of these guys have way more knowledge than I do but i have had one for about a year and I just keep him in freshwater with about a tablespoon of salt per 10 gallons of water. My eel is very active and eats great but if I had it to do over I would have never bought this fish if I had known they were brackish. although a short life with me is better than the pet store that I rescued him from.
I was just wondering if the eel is brackish or fresh. Some say they do best in a marine tank but, one the guys at my fish store has had one in a display tank for over 3 years in a completley freshwater tank. He feeds it shirmp and sinking pellets. Believe me i've seen it. I just dont kno why it wont work for me? And how come the eel gets that white coating all over his body. Thanks for all the info so far
When I was working in a fish store about a year ago we got a few of these guys and put them into a freshwater tank and they all died by the end of the day.TONSOFOSCAR said: