Been looking for one in Singapore and finally found one in a FW shop selling exotic fish.
SGD 58 = USD 50 give or take for an 8 incher.
I have done my research and believe that the eel can survive in fresh/brackish/marine water environments.
Spent a week acclimatising it to saltwater .. .slowly raising salt water levels and monitoring it.
After a week the water is now completely marine, and the eel is eating a little bit when i offer it prawn.
I have 2 groupers, 4 lions and 8 morays in my main tank.
Now the G.Poly is in my one and only quarantine tank.
Usually I would pump FW ghost shrimp with marine food for days before feeding - in the quarantine tank.
So knowing I would need the quarantine tank in a few hours... and plus there are 8 morays in the tank....
I released the G.Poly in.
My Variola Louti Grouper (resident king at also 8 inches) took offence and grabbed the eel by its head shaking it several times against a rock.
I chased the grouper around but he did it to the poor eel 3 to 5 times before the eel found a place to hide.
The G.Poly then survived for the next 2 days hiding in a corner but the grouper kept hovering nearby.
I fed the grouper to the point it looks pregnant - hoping to distract it.
day 3 i can see the G.Poly investigating its surroundings.
Went out for an hour - came home to see eel meat around the tank. Grouper killed it by simply ripping its head off.
Sorry for the long post but its such a silly predatory fish keeper mistake not flooding the tank with feeders.
And having kept groupers for years it is highly unlikely I can keep another G.Poly.
The grouper has locked it in his brain that G.Poly is an enemy and will not hesitate to attack one no matter the size.
SGD 58 = USD 50 give or take for an 8 incher.
I have done my research and believe that the eel can survive in fresh/brackish/marine water environments.
Spent a week acclimatising it to saltwater .. .slowly raising salt water levels and monitoring it.
After a week the water is now completely marine, and the eel is eating a little bit when i offer it prawn.
I have 2 groupers, 4 lions and 8 morays in my main tank.
Now the G.Poly is in my one and only quarantine tank.
Usually I would pump FW ghost shrimp with marine food for days before feeding - in the quarantine tank.
So knowing I would need the quarantine tank in a few hours... and plus there are 8 morays in the tank....
I released the G.Poly in.
My Variola Louti Grouper (resident king at also 8 inches) took offence and grabbed the eel by its head shaking it several times against a rock.
I chased the grouper around but he did it to the poor eel 3 to 5 times before the eel found a place to hide.
The G.Poly then survived for the next 2 days hiding in a corner but the grouper kept hovering nearby.
I fed the grouper to the point it looks pregnant - hoping to distract it.
day 3 i can see the G.Poly investigating its surroundings.
Went out for an hour - came home to see eel meat around the tank. Grouper killed it by simply ripping its head off.
Sorry for the long post but its such a silly predatory fish keeper mistake not flooding the tank with feeders.
And having kept groupers for years it is highly unlikely I can keep another G.Poly.
The grouper has locked it in his brain that G.Poly is an enemy and will not hesitate to attack one no matter the size.
