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I recently got a 12" fire eel as well. He's very calm and friendly, he's never too concerned with my hands either. I haven't caught him eating either. I've got some feeders (small), ghost shrimp, and blood worms available to him.
Also, first post on MFK! Registration finally worked! All it took was a new computer lol.
Also, first post on MFK! Registration finally worked! All it took was a new computer lol.
tankmates?
Tankmates are clown loaches, a couple blue gouramis, a pleco, a featherfin catfish, a betta, a few serpae tetras (which I'm hoping to get rid of soon, fin pickers) and a few otocinclus. My previous eels had these exact tankmates with no issues and ate just fine, but this guy seems to be taking his dear sweet time.
He did eat a couple mysis shrimp yesterday though, so I'm staying positive
Just an update, he's eagerly taking regular shrimp now (the frozen stuff they sell in bags at the grocery store). While I'd like to give him other things in addition to the shrimp, I'm just happy he's finally eating... and from my fingers at that.
Still wont touch anything else though.
Still wont touch anything else though.
Glad he's eating, beware the pleco.. some are fine others can be right jerks. just keep trying as much food as you can.. personally i'de get him on live blackworms if your haveing issues with his eating habits yet. I am persoanlly not a fan of grocery shrimp ( if you have access to fresh stuff thats a different story) and chopped up nightcrawlers at 12" cutting one up into 1/4s should be small enough to eat. also sounds liek the tank is a semi-agg community so that may be why he took longer to settle in, some are just more docile then others.
My pleco is fine. Doesn't suck on the other fish or anything, and I give them plenty of food.
I agree with you on the grocery shrimp, and I want to get him off it ASAP now. I read the back of the bag, and one of the ingredients was sodium tripolyphosphate... which is a very bad thing (for fish AND us).
Need to find a place that sells fresh and/or organic shrimp. Not sure where I could get some live blackworms locally, but I know a place I could get them online. He wont touch nightcrawlers or red worms though, even if they're cut up.
I agree with you on the grocery shrimp, and I want to get him off it ASAP now. I read the back of the bag, and one of the ingredients was sodium tripolyphosphate... which is a very bad thing (for fish AND us).
Need to find a place that sells fresh and/or organic shrimp. Not sure where I could get some live blackworms locally, but I know a place I could get them online. He wont touch nightcrawlers or red worms though, even if they're cut up.
Very stubboirn lil' bugger.. you may also try frozen krill, not the best but it won't have the Tripoly in it ( def why grocery shrimp are the devil!) at least. And odly enough i had to try a few brands of frozen krill before mine would eat one... thats how picky they are sometimes =)
Got an order of live blackworms, offered them to him, and he STILL doesn't seem interested. Could it take a little bit for him to recognize them as food?
How did you offer them? I just moved my lil' fire into a bigger tank.. and he hides again all day and will come out only at night to forage for worms in the sand, any major movement near his tank and he's back into hiding until I assume we go to bed for the night. If his other tank-mates don't eat to many of them i would put a hand-ful inot the tank around where he usually hides and wait for lights out to see what he does.
I just dropped a bunch in around the driftwood where he hides. Of course the other fish went after some no prob, and the uneaten ones buried themselves (I can see parts of them poking out of the sand). I don't know if he's eating them. I guess I'll have to be sneaky and see if he's foraging for them at night.
