My fire eel

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After his recent move to the new tank, he had become very shy and preferred to hide a lot.

Now has returned to being the attention whore that he is, always at the forefront front begging for more food, gave me an opportunity to shoot a few pics, will post em here.

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Great pic, I just bought one off a bloke who had told the lfs it had outgrown his 6ft by 18 inch tank, I didn't believe when he said it was over 18 inches and as thick as a cucumber. It was huge when I got there and he is young.

Anyway, he took a week to settle and is now starting to look hard for food and he has just eaten 4 massive worms. The previous owner only fed 100+ live river shrimps per week so I am going to have to get him on to frozen fish, mussels and prawns etc..

I love that pic of your Eel, great photography skills. What does it eat most of the time?
 

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Great pic, I just bought one off a bloke who had told the lfs it had outgrown his 6ft by 18 inch tank, I didn't believe when he said it was over 18 inches and as thick as a cucumber. It was huge when I got there and he is young.

Anyway, he took a week to settle and is now starting to look hard for food and he has just eaten 4 massive worms. The previous owner only fed 100+ live river shrimps per week so I am going to have to get him on to frozen fish, mussels and prawns etc..

I love that pic of your Eel, great photography skills. What does it eat most of the time?
Nice find, if the fish has already lived in a tank, he should settle down soon.

mine took me almost 40 months to get him to eat something other than live earthworms and live shrimps(neocaridina and macrobrachium).

When I moved him from a small to a bigger tank, he didn't come out in the open for almost 40days, now he is back to being normal and comes out in the open to eat from my hand
 
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He does look a chunky boy.
My one has taken frozen prawns and frozen king prawns today from my hand (I cut the king prawns length ways) I am really pleases it has only taken a week or so to get him hand feeding frozen as the previous owner only ever fed live river shrimp, now we will see him fill out well.

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