Its previous owner gave me an open bag of silver sides. He fed it a whole one for show when I picked it up, and routinely has fed a whole fish x2 on Monday, x1 every other weekday and none on weekends for a couple years
It looked to me like it was descaling the fish, with small clouds of scales emerging with each time it sucked it in and worked it in its mouth.
I’ve never had a fire eel or any other eel for that matter so I can’t really say what’s normal
The guy that sold me the fire eel yesterday called me last night w a sudden decision to shut down the tank. I won’t bore you with the details. In short, he had 5 pyrocephalus, a species I have had on my list for years, he wanted to move quickly and asked me to make him an offer. My favorite thing to do
With the AUL pick up etc, my fish kitty isn’t healthy atm, I made the best offer I could, respectable, but the fish are worth considerably more given there are two proven breeding pairs and a stunning extra male in the group. He accepted!
So this morning I drove back across town and picked these guys up and brought them home
Wow, good for you on getting the 5 pyrocephalus. At first I thought that due to this new development you were going to get rid of the remaining Moba. That would have been a sad day indeed but looks like everything is still ok then. You're still a Moba Frontosa guy, and then you have a few little side projects also going which is fine I guess.