I have a 7" Peacock eel and it eats frozen bloodworms and earthworms. Mine is in a 55 gallon with 2 silver dollars,1 senegal bichir,1 bala shark,1 Tiger Oscar, 1 Angelfish,1 African Knifefish, and 1 Snakeskin Gourami
Peacock Eel Questions
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i have tire tracks, fire eels, and peacocks. the tire tracks will eat live fish, bloodworms, and live ghost shrimp. the fire eels will eat bloodworms and live ghost shrimp but not live fish. the peacocks will eat bloodworms, no live fish of ghost shrimp, but will eat live brine shrimp
18''-20'' is huge for a peacock thats proubly the biggest they get in the wild
aqualandpetsplus isn't the best web site lots of good info on there but also alot of wrong info peacocks when adults might eat fish they arn't nearly as preditory as tire track or fire eels but when adults they may try to eat fry but they have very small mouths so they could only eat the smallest of fish
aqualandpetsplus isn't the best web site lots of good info on there but also alot of wrong info peacocks when adults might eat fish they arn't nearly as preditory as tire track or fire eels but when adults they may try to eat fry but they have very small mouths so they could only eat the smallest of fish
There are a couple of species called and sold as peacocks. One only gets about 10-12", one can get much larger. That's probably where some of the confusion about size comes from. Don't ask me which of the species gets larger. There's quite a bit of confusing info on the net, and some sites confuse the 2 species so I'm not even sure where to find out other than growing the 2 species myself, lol.
I Don't really see a peacock eating anything but small fry unless they're very large, then they might be able to eat small fish that happen to swim by, but I'm thinking it's pretty unlikely. Peacock eels have smaller mouths than some of the other spiny eel species commonly sold, like tiretracks and fire eels. Likely they rarely eat fish if at all, and when they do it's usually dead.
I Don't really see a peacock eating anything but small fry unless they're very large, then they might be able to eat small fish that happen to swim by, but I'm thinking it's pretty unlikely. Peacock eels have smaller mouths than some of the other spiny eel species commonly sold, like tiretracks and fire eels. Likely they rarely eat fish if at all, and when they do it's usually dead.
ShadowBass;1257723; said:
Yeah, just like this website i saw, kinda confusing really...
http://www.****************/catalog_pages/sharks_eels_loaches/eels_spiny.htm
