Freshwater morray

[Brian C]

I have a freshwater morray (gymnothorax tile), and have kept i for some time now

at the moment it wil only eat live food (fish), but what kind of food would be good to use to train it to eat dead food?

best wishes

Brian (Denmark)

 

[Syffe457]

There is no such thing as a fresh water morray, you will need to move to salt or brackish water. But to get it to eat frozen food just offer it more often then the live food, it just a baby and thats why its fresh water, ti will take some time to get it do take the food but over time it will work.

 

[rottbo]

will need to be moved to full marine tank in order to live a full life and try frozen silversides my eel loves them

 

[Brian C]

I know they are not freshwater species, and I keep mine in Brackish water
it's an adult, it seems to very happy with eating mollies especially sailfin

I don't know "silversides" what is this?

best wishes
Brian

 

[Legacy]

From what I have read Live Feeders are considered to be a poor choice of nutrition. I have also heard cases of live feeders backing up the intestinal system and causing death. I don't know if this is only gold fish or not.

I'd try out squid, possibly pieces of fish fillets, fed with forceps and wiggled like a live fish.

 

[rottbo]

silversides are a type of minnow that they sell frozen and i only feed these as treats

 

[Legacy]

Rottbo's method of feeding silversides only as treats sounds very reasonable. I think I might adopt that technique. =)

 

[rottbo]

mine loves it he will eat till he cant move if i let him, he gets all bulged out and just lays there for a couple of hours

 

[Hakon]

Maybe you can try with frozen shrimp and pretend it's live

 

[BlondeBantam]

I've had good luck feeding my eels frozen foods (shrimp,krill) by simply waving it about past the eels nose. They could never resist take a bite of it, or my finger for that matter.