Question about "snowflake" eels?

[fook]

I've read plenty of opinions about snowflake eels needing salt water, not needing salt water, no such thing as a freshwater snowflake eel, etc. I'm still not sure who is right but.....

I've had a "snowflake" eel doing very well in freshwater (with just a bit of salt) for quite some time. I recently bought another eel that the lfs called a "snow spotted" eel. I asked if they meant snowflake eel and they said no...it was different. Well, it looks almost identical but is slightly lighter in color. The new one is very active, the other one is very reclusive. The new one is also pretty aggresive, the other one doesn't seem nearly as aggressive.

So is it possible that these are the same kind of eels with different lfs names? (I think so). Maybe one is a female and the other is a male? They don't seem aggressive to each other at all.

On a side note....the new one is missing about half of his bottom jaw. Maybe he got in a fight before I got him. It looks kind of strange but I wanted him anyway.

 

[max412]

the real snowflake eel requires marine water, this one is white/yellow with dark spots. The other one is a Gtile, they live in brackish water

 

[RareExoticFish]

Lots of people say snowflakes can like in fresh but they are wrong ( they shouldn't even be in brackish )
But there are the gtile eels which are born in brackish but as they get older they acclimate to full marine.
So there are really no true eels in full freshwater.
The closest you will get are spiny and long/short fin

 

[Cichlaholics Anonymous]

like the poster above said, Gymnothorax tile is also probably best kept in saltwater too. I'v kept G. tile in both SW and Brackish, and the overall health and vitality was better in SW

 

[kamikaziechameleon]

Lots of people say snowflakes can like in fresh but they are wrong ( they shouldn't even be in brackish )
But there are the gtile eels which are born in brackish but as they get older they acclimate to full marine.
So there are really no true eels in full freshwater.
The closest you will get are spiny and long/short fin

Did G tile in fresh for over 3 years. Same requirements as keeping any brackish fish in fresh, immaculate water with high ph. I found a crushed coral substrate does extremely well for keeping the water buffered the way they like it. I would sight make sure to vary the animals diet they are prone to hole in head. I didn't realize that is what mine had, I only fed him cocktail shrimp, yeah I know wrong move I know that now there wasn't any info on them when I originally kept mine. Here is a blurb on G. tile I wrote up for aqua hobby a while back.

http://www.aquahobby.com/gallery/others/e_Gymnothorax_tile.php

The other snowflake eel you are thinking of that shares the common name is this one.

http://www.liveaquaria.com/images/categories/product/p-70678-snowflake-eel3.jpg

not at all the same fish.

 

[fook]

Thanks for the posts. These are definitely G tile. There was actually some salt in the tank they are in but I added a little more. Is there any way to tell what sex they are? And does anyone have any idea if that bottom jaw will grow back?