Freshwater Morey Eel?

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acerkai640

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so today i went into my LFS and well they had 1 of these and i want to know if someone knows about a good website or if anyone has had experience with these i would like to know. i was possibly thinking about getting one but want some info if pos, thanks
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if you keep it in at least brackish conditions, you will find it to be a hardy fish that will accept most meaty foods and live for a long time. with the exception of the brackish aspect of it, it is a typical moray with no particularly specialized care, just watch out for holes it can escape the tank an avoid most meds like those that are copper based. very durable fish, kept best higher brackish levels or marine
 
hmm.. i got curious.. can you put em in a saltwater tank? i have a 110 gallon FOWLR and i was wondering since it is good to put them in brackish.. How bout saltwater?
 
Yes, I've seen them live fine in saltwater tanks...We had one at a store I worked at together with the "real" snowflake morays in saltwater
 
Seem to do okay at younger ages in Fresh but always seemed happier in brackish for me.
I had one full marine before too.
The few I have ahd have been very different. One hid all the time, one liked to swim, and one like to escape. Mostly he would get into the emperor 400 filter I had.
I even pulled him off the floor a few times.
One time I got home, and he was almost hard from being dried out. Threw him back in, and he lived. Crazy fish.
 
I've been interested in these guys for a while too, but I also don't know much about them. I've read that they can be VERY particular about water parameters, even beyond just having the water brackish. Are they extra sensitive to ph and nitrate levels also? In comparison to difficulty of care, how do they rate in comparison with a freshwater stingray??
 
Never had a stingray but in my experience you have to go out of your way to kill these guys.
Salinity isnt a huge problem. They can be light brackish to full marine, so as long as you keep them with a little bit of salt in the tank, and there are no spikes I would say they are good.
Kepy them in my mono, scat tank so they had a heavy waste load and he did fine.
I do 30% water changes every other week in that tank. I do have like 100 times the filtration on that tank though. Texas water is high ph
Mine eat krill and gold fish.
 
Never bothered anything that wasnt food. If it couldnt be swallowed it wasnt given a second look. I even had kight Gobys that were pretty small and he never ate any of them. Now the halophryne trispinosus (or FW lion) was a different story. He ate everything.
 
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