Yes, its another Fire Eel feeding Video...
I wanted to try out the new embedding youtube feature, so here is a clip of feeding our Fire Eels. The big one is about 19 inches, and the two smaller ones are around 9 inches or so. We have had them for about three weeks now, and they seem to be well adjusted. Not shy at all, and eat from the hand. They are rooming with a bunch of plecos.
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We are keeping to the same paramaters as our discus tanks with everything except the temp. We are at around 82, but would like to be closer to 80. Once I get done with some tests at school I will work on a fan for the lights.
The one issue we are trying to figure out is the feeding frequency. The store owner where we got the big one was feeding 4-5 nightcrawlers 1-2 times a week. Looking at pics of other fire eels, he was under fed being that he had cavities behind his eyes. From my research, it looks like their heads should be more conical and not have indentations. The smaller ones exhibit the conical head trait. The big one also did not have much color.
We have been feeding him 2-3 nightcrawlers in the morning and 2-3 in the evening along with market shrimp split down the middle. He tends to beg until he is full and then go to the back... so we generally space out the feeding unlike in the video clip. This way he can let us know when he is full. He is starting to fill out behind his eyes and is getting more color along the side. Any experience/feedback on feeding or other issues is always appreciated.
One of the smaller fire eels has a scrape on his side in the video that looks whiteish in color. I've been monitoring it and it is continuing to heal, it doesn't look like any sort of fungus which I have read can be an issue with there guys.
-Eric
I wanted to try out the new embedding youtube feature, so here is a clip of feeding our Fire Eels. The big one is about 19 inches, and the two smaller ones are around 9 inches or so. We have had them for about three weeks now, and they seem to be well adjusted. Not shy at all, and eat from the hand. They are rooming with a bunch of plecos.
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We are keeping to the same paramaters as our discus tanks with everything except the temp. We are at around 82, but would like to be closer to 80. Once I get done with some tests at school I will work on a fan for the lights.
The one issue we are trying to figure out is the feeding frequency. The store owner where we got the big one was feeding 4-5 nightcrawlers 1-2 times a week. Looking at pics of other fire eels, he was under fed being that he had cavities behind his eyes. From my research, it looks like their heads should be more conical and not have indentations. The smaller ones exhibit the conical head trait. The big one also did not have much color.
We have been feeding him 2-3 nightcrawlers in the morning and 2-3 in the evening along with market shrimp split down the middle. He tends to beg until he is full and then go to the back... so we generally space out the feeding unlike in the video clip. This way he can let us know when he is full. He is starting to fill out behind his eyes and is getting more color along the side. Any experience/feedback on feeding or other issues is always appreciated.
One of the smaller fire eels has a scrape on his side in the video that looks whiteish in color. I've been monitoring it and it is continuing to heal, it doesn't look like any sort of fungus which I have read can be an issue with there guys.
-Eric
