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[Snook000]

fresh

 

[Pyramid_Party]

Get a tire track or zig zag Eel. I believe both stay small and are FW.

 

[Pyramid_Party]

I bet you got IDIOT tattooed on your forehead.

 

[Snook000]

do the zig zag eels eat live

 

[Pyramid_Party]

Maybe small fish. Might eat some snails. They will eat live worms like crazy though!

 

[Pyramid_Party]

Actually you are better off with a peacock eel. Its smaller. I did not realize those zig zag eels got that big. I was thinking they reach under a foot. There is one more eel I think that stays small, under a foot. But I can't recall.

 

[alexpie001]

i thought this thread was closed?

 

[kdrun76]

I like how everyone is noticing a that I got rid of all most all my fish and that I said that they will all be gone Tuesday

Its Tuesday, is your tank empty, are all the fish gone?

 

[kmill]

I saw this thread weeks ago and thought wow thats an overstocked 55, then as the thread continued so did everyone else, the torching exploded to an inferno. With all that was said the one thing I noticed was lack of water changes....but plenty of time on MFK. Maybe everyones time could be spent doing a few more water changes.

 

[jclyde13]

Actually you are better off with a peacock eel. Its smaller. I did not realize those zig zag eels got that big. I was thinking they reach under a foot. There is one more eel I think that stays small, under a foot. But I can't recall.

I explained all that in one of my previous posts (quoted below). "Tire track eels" are Mastacembelus armatus and Mastacembelus favus, "zig zag eels" are Macrognathus circumcinctus, although tire track eels are often mislabled as zig zags (I have no idea why, the look almost nothing alike). Mastacembelus favus get to about 28 inches, and Mastacembelus armatus get to over 36", but Macrognathus circumcinctus only get to 8" (they are one of the smallest species).

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And to answer Snook's question in this post^^: the closest thing to an eel you can get for your tank is a spiny eel.

Some species that would work would be:
peacocks-Macrognathus siamensis
zigzags-M. circumcinctus
lesser spiny eels-M. aculeatus

But if you get a spiny eel, then it is very important that you test your water regularly and never let your parameters get any higher than 0ppm ammonia, 0ppm nitrites, and 20-40ppm nitrates. And with zigzags, it is extremely important that you do enough research to be able to easily tell them appart from the two other species of "zigzag", Mastacembelus armatus and M. favus, because these two species both exceed 2 feet in length.