Fish Tank Travis
thanks! Eventually it ate several of the "thinner" worm pieces after a while of snapping at them and sniffing every piece it found. I might try adding some smaller worms to the mix next time instead of doing all giant night crawlers.
Yeah, best to get some red wigglers for him. My smaller fire eel is about the same size as yours and that's what I feed him. He did try to eat one of the large night crawlers that was meant for my larger fire eels or catfish.
He couldn't get past the egg sack and then he got too close to my catfish and one of them snatched it right out of his mouth. He takes the red wigglers with ease, and has been putting down some krill and shrimp. He's really starting to fatten up now.
My larger two fire eels can eat whole night crawlers no problem, along with a bunch of shrimp or krill, all at the same time. Lol. They are complete pigs and will eat just about anything but pellets.
Well my girlfriend said it best "you're a firefighter you need a fire fish" so I couldn't resist it and found a good deal and picked up a fire Eel. Cute little beast! So far he's the most active of all the eels I've had and seems to get along with everyone else in the tank. About 8.5" right now and seems to have settled in nicely
Couple more shots of the new guy. Seems to really like one piece of driftwood in particular and is constantly poking his head out of the end which I think is pretty cute. Still working on fattening him up. Loves his blackworms and krill so I don't think it should be looking thin much longer
