I recently bought a Snowflake eel in my usual manner i looked up far too mch info to be healthy and then searched for one till i found him. Now i have a a bit of a problem, i can't be sure if he is eating but he is supposed to like live food i tried brine shrimp my jack and texas really like it but he couldn't seem to care less and i tried ghost shrimp which once again my hungery little fellows loved. he is by no means pushed around or truely out contested for food so if he isn't eating what could it be any ideas?
Snowflake Eel eating?
- Thread starter raziel
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i bought my snowflake and he didnt eat for three days (putting in live feeder shrimp). the other fish ate them all. then i read about waiting a while. so i left him for a week with no food and waited till he started swimming around looking for food. as soon as i put in the frozen supermarket shrimp on a feeder stick he went nuts. they binge feed, so i feed mine bout every 3 to 4 days.
hope this helps.
hope this helps.
Correct me if I am wrong but isnt Snowflake Eel a brackish fish that requires full salt as adult
EDIT: http://www.fishbase.org/Summary/SpeciesSummary.php?id=5388
EDIT: http://www.fishbase.org/Summary/SpeciesSummary.php?id=5388
Hiya and welcome Raziel,
I have always seen them in sw. Never kept one.
Oh, I found the problem, 2 different eels are sold as snowflakes, the fully marine Echidna nebulosa (snowflake moray) that gets to 40", and the Gymnothorax tile (freshwater snowflake eel) which is not as coomonly sold but runs around $20 @ 9" long, that one gets to around 24" max., It breeds in salt or strong brackish water but lives comfortably in fresh, brackish, or salt and can move between them. I found a couple discussion forums in which it was said that they often take several days to settle in and start eating, they also suggest feeding at night and providing hidng caves. here are pics of both types of snowflake.
I have always seen them in sw. Never kept one.
Oh, I found the problem, 2 different eels are sold as snowflakes, the fully marine Echidna nebulosa (snowflake moray) that gets to 40", and the Gymnothorax tile (freshwater snowflake eel) which is not as coomonly sold but runs around $20 @ 9" long, that one gets to around 24" max., It breeds in salt or strong brackish water but lives comfortably in fresh, brackish, or salt and can move between them. I found a couple discussion forums in which it was said that they often take several days to settle in and start eating, they also suggest feeding at night and providing hidng caves. here are pics of both types of snowflake.
I currently have on in a salt tank. he has doubled in size since i got him and he is one hardy but great lookin eel.
dose any1 know what they eat. I see them in every so often for 14$ @ 10+inch. I had one but it died along time ago. when i first started fish keeping. I am considering getting another
FlammingWoodChuck said:
they eat small shrimp... had the most success getting them to feed w those...