marble moray

[ShadowBass]

Don't worry you are not "slighting" me. I have no desire to keep the fish. I just thought it was something interesting I came across.

Thanks, I just tend to end up slightly off topic when I'm low on sleep and posting at 2:30 a.m, lol.

The reason I brought it up is that as far as I know there are no freshwater moray eels. Someone mentioned one supposedly in another thread, and though it was sometimes found in FW it still ended up being a brackish/marine fish.
So I think it's pretty safe to assume that if it's an actual moray it's not FW.

And there seem to be so many people specifically trying to find moray eels that can be kept in fw, I just don't understand it because a brackish tank is no different other than the addition of marine salt, so why specifically seek out fish where there are no known FW species to put in a fw tank? And chances are if you buy an actual moray that's been kept in fw it won't live long or you will eventually have to acclimate it to brackish or marine, a slow process and more difficult than just buying a moray out of a brackish or marine tank and matching the salinity.

 

[masone]

They look like Gymnothorax polyuranodon. Need brackish water to have healthy life

I was thinking polyuranodon too. I have caught them in freshwater way upstream at about 60cm length near the Mossman/Daintree region in north Oz. Having said that, I'd still be inclined to keep them in brackish rather than full fresh.

 

[Snake_Eyes]

Looks like a Tesselata moray (Gymnothorax favagineus).

 

[BIGS]

Apparently there is a species of FW moray eel. My lfs has them, I can't remember the scientific name, but when I looked it up sure enough it turns out it is genuine fresh water. They look awsome to with yellow an orange speckles. They have had them some months and are doing quite well. They only grow to 1 metre. But since they have had them I swear they have grown quite a bit.