looking for rice patty eels

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nigaharu;2847132; said:
There were many in Pearl City 15 years ago. The DLNR would take it away if you called them. Small knie toxic the bite!
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are they still being used for unagi? or do you know any direct source i can go get them at? pearl city still have any?

so far my tank is accumulating fish i scooped up anyway so all my fish are from the wild (no store bought fish = less worry for intolerance to disease).

i grabbed 2 convicts, 4 plecos and a juvenile tiger oscar from the stream... might wanna throw the oscar back though.
 
Brought to Hawaii by Asian migrants during the 1800s and became well established in O'ahu by the early 1900s; most abundant on the windward side of O'ahu; these air-breathing eels can burrow in moist mud and can survive long periods without water



this must be the guy you looking for!
 
nigaharu;2847989; said:
Brought to Hawaii by Asian migrants during the 1800s and became well established in O'ahu by the early 1900s; most abundant on the windward side of O'ahu; these air-breathing eels can burrow in moist mud and can survive long periods without water



this must be the guy you looking for!
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the pics too small but the colors right! yea i want one of those. lol and i will stop at nothing to get one! do you know any1 who could help me out with this? any contacts or anything? leads to hot spots on this island i can grab one from? people may look at me weird to say this but eels with teeth are my original dream fishes. this is the closest i can get to a FW moray so im locked on it. lol to hell with Spiny eels and fake other wannabe's !!!!
 
These have bites and jaws like mini lungfish .They can be very predatory when large .
 
nigaharu;2848240; said:
I'll see if any of my other friends know of places that still has those eel swimming around. Don't you want to revisit the place in Kaneohe again
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as much as i want to, i actually cant... i was able to go to that particular stream because i was with my college class. otherwise im under the liability of the rehab center. you been to ace hardware here? the river is actualy RIGHT behind their wood surplus.
 
Hello Retuks;
You may want to look at the Golden Tulip Eels.They are the exact color you described.I have 2 of them in my tank.They are gold-yellow with black splotches and spots.I also have a snow-flake F.W.moray eel.To complete it,there are 2 black rubber eels that are not true eels.That part that they are semi-poisonous is nothing but B.S.They are just trying to scare you into not keeping them.PM me if you want more info.

Arapaimaman
 
Arapaimaman;2848357; said:
Hello Retuks;
You may want to look at the Golden Tulip Eels.They are the exact color you described.I have 2 of them in my tank.They are gold-yellow with black splotches and spots.I also have a snow-flake F.W.moray eel.To complete it,there are 2 black rubber eels that are not true eels.That part that they are semi-poisonous is nothing but B.S.They are just trying to scare you into not keeping them.PM me if you want more info.

Arapaimaman
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there was only one picture i could see it from and that actualy looks closer to the eel i saw then the rice patty eel because the rice had a bigger head and this tulip eel has a head equal to its body.

omfg it must be a tulip eel... that looks like the one. do they have teeth?
 
any more info on the tulip eel?

sharp teeth?

total avg size?
 
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