Tonight i decided to buy some red wigglers from petsmart to see if my peacock eel would eat them. First off i have had my eel for about 5 months and have never seen him eat. The only food i have been giving him was blood worms. I threw in a red wiggler and positioned in about 2 inches in front of his face and bam! he was out of the sand and slurping down the worm within a second of it hitting the sand. I was very happy and hope i can get him to continue to eat and get a little more plump. Now i have a quiestion how offten do you feed them the worms and how many at a time he is about 6 inches and a little on the skinny side compaired to most peacock eels i have seen.
peacock eating red wigglers
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one worm every other day would be fine. iv heard they'll go for a week in the wild without eating so... every other day would be like Heaven for them.
I'll agree with every other day - depending on the size of the worm. If he scarfs it right up in under 5 seconds, you might be able to feed him every day. Worms that require him to slowly engulf it, it's better to feed every other day, so they can digest it properly.
I wonder if they sell these at all petsmarts, if so Ive never seen em. What part did you find them in?
I work at a petsmart in st. chalres, mo. There not in the freezer with the blood worms and brine shrimp there with the meal worms and wax worms usually in the fish or reptile section there in a little blue cup there $4.29 for 45-55 worms.
also i have a little horror story for you i came home today from school and dropped in another red wiggler the eel ate him it took about 30sec for him to get it completely down and about a min later he starts swimming around frantically i see the worm starting to squirm out of his gills a got a set of tweezers and grabbed the end of the worm and the eel wiggled and worked it out it scared me cause it looked like he was going to suffocate but when it came out the jack Dempsey rushed up to me and took it.
j/w do you guys cut them up first or just give them the small wigglers i would rather not have this happen again it looked like it stressed him out a bunch.
also i have a little horror story for you i came home today from school and dropped in another red wiggler the eel ate him it took about 30sec for him to get it completely down and about a min later he starts swimming around frantically i see the worm starting to squirm out of his gills a got a set of tweezers and grabbed the end of the worm and the eel wiggled and worked it out it scared me cause it looked like he was going to suffocate but when it came out the jack Dempsey rushed up to me and took it.
j/w do you guys cut them up first or just give them the small wigglers i would rather not have this happen again it looked like it stressed him out a bunch.
I'd feed him at least 1x a day, 2 if he'll take it. My old peacock eel could eat 2 cubes of frozen biopure bloodworms per sitting, being fed 2x a day. He was 6 inches btw.