There’s a taxonomy paper on it. Posted on the forum prior. Starts and stays in freshwater. Have to dig around and find it.
Freshwater moray eals?
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Absolutely! It's a gorgious looking eel.. not as colorful as salt water eels I always see but the same look to them as the salt ones... would be pretty rad to keep one of these guys
Wonder how big they get
Freshwater Moray Eels
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According to this site... looking much like the eel in my picture... it's a G tile like
kno4te
mentioned and cannot be kept for life in freshwater but is commonly called a freshwater moray as they breed in freshwater
I think papers have said max size to be around 1 - 1.2M in length...
Many years ago my girlfriend gifted me a "freshwater moray eel". I was delighted of course, and it did well at first, then it started not doing so well. I gave it to a friend who had a brackish set up and his health improved, with behavior returning to normal. This was a long time ago so I cannot remember the exact species besides being labelled "snowflake eel". This could have been a wrong label as the same girlfriend also surprised with me a very young "piranha" which turned out to be a Pacu, from the same store.
From my research at the time, it looked like there was no real "freshwater morays". They migrate to breed, and live as juveniles like some other marine/brackish fish do, but dont survive in freshwater for life.
That being said, I am no expert on eels, but I found this link on Gymnothorax polyuranodon - freshwater eels. They seem to be found in fresh and brackish. Although not much research has been done on them by the looks of it, so their habits and patterns are not well known yet.
Granted the paper is from 2011, but I didn't find much else on them.
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
From my research at the time, it looked like there was no real "freshwater morays". They migrate to breed, and live as juveniles like some other marine/brackish fish do, but dont survive in freshwater for life.
That being said, I am no expert on eels, but I found this link on Gymnothorax polyuranodon - freshwater eels. They seem to be found in fresh and brackish. Although not much research has been done on them by the looks of it, so their habits and patterns are not well known yet.
Granted the paper is from 2011, but I didn't find much else on them.
Is the elusive Gymnothorax polyuranodon really a freshwater moray? - PubMed
<p>Analysis of 36 records of the rarely encountered moray Gymnothorax polyuranodon indicate that juveniles and adults inhabit fresh and mildly brackish habitats (salinity < 5) in streams of the Australian Wet Tropics Eighty-one per cent of these records were from freshwater streams and...
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Many years ago my girlfriend gifted me a "freshwater moray eel". I was delighted of course, and it did well at first, then it started not doing so well. I gave it to a friend who had a brackish set up and his health improved, with behavior returning to normal. This was a long time ago so I cannot remember the exact species besides being labelled "snowflake eel". This could have been a wrong label as the same girlfriend also surprised with me a very young "piranha" which turned out to be a Pacu, from the same store.
From my research at the time, it looked like there was no real "freshwater morays". They migrate to breed, and live as juveniles like some other marine/brackish fish do, but dont survive in freshwater for life.
That being said, I am no expert on eels, but I found this link on Gymnothorax polyuranodon - freshwater eels. They seem to be found in fresh and brackish. Although not much research has been done on them by the looks of it, so their habits and patterns are not well known yet.
Granted the paper is from 2011, but I didn't find much else on them.
Is the elusive Gymnothorax polyuranodon really a freshwater moray? - PubMed
<p>Analysis of 36 records of the rarely encountered moray Gymnothorax polyuranodon indicate that juveniles and adults inhabit fresh and mildly brackish habitats (salinity < 5) in streams of the Australian Wet Tropics Eighty-one per cent of these records were from freshwater streams and...
Freshwater snowflake eel is a common name used for G.Tiles, freshwater Tiger Eel is the common name normally used for G.Polyuranadon from what i’ve seen...
