Good demonstration on how to utilize floaters to accommodate diggers. The guppy grass, normally a messy plant, looks lush and neat in mass. I’m surprised I don’t see duckweed contamination of desirable floaters. Do you feed your eels exclusively live which can be messy. . How often do you do water change.
Yes, guppy grass is such a messy plant lol. I both love and hate it to be honest. But the eels absolutely love the stuff. They love swimming into the thickest bunches of it and just chilling
I get the occasional duckweed but the big floaters pretty much starve it out i think.
The eels eat a variety of live foods and occasional frozen blood worms.
Their normal everyday staple are nightcrawlers. They get these 3 days a week. The in-between days they get blood worms, crickets, or grasshoppers. Every now and then i go to my pond and use minnow traps to catch some baby bluegill fry and ill let the eels eat them.
The eels do make a mess when it eating nightcrawlers. I pulled some ramshorn and bladder snails from my pond and threw them in the tank to help clean detritus. Now I've probably got hundreds lmao but I don't mind. They're great cleaners.
I'll probably catch hell for admitting this, but I actually never water change this tank. Every two weeks I have to add about 20 gallons (4 bucket fulls) so I've never really worried about it. I guess the floating plants soak up alot of water and release it into the air. Ever since I added water lettuce and hyacinth to the tank, my basement humidity and need for topping off increased big time.
Nitrates stay pretty low.
