Snowflake eel
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I have a 14" Snowflake in a 4ft 55gallon and he is doing fine, his only problem is fighting off my Juvi Redtail Trigger for Food
I've honestly never kept snowflakes, but my experience with Gymnothorax morays has led me to the understanding they really don't care how big their tank is, if they have a comfortable cave they can wind themselves around in, they're going to stay in it for as long as it remains comfortable and food is presented.
I'm not telling you to stuff a 3 foot eel into a 30g tank, but FWIW my 3 foot fimbriatus only uses about 5g worth of space in the 150 he's in.. once they find homes they're not too eager to leave, so I see how that sort of rumor could get started, and that it could be done. I don't see problems with space so much as waste, when morays eat they make a mess, and what they do manage to get into their mouths comes back out... my eel craps bigger than my cat, not something you want in a 30g I don't care how much filtration you've got.
Before I get flamed, my morays cave has 5 openings, all of which are big enough for him to get out of, he chooses not to leave. The only activity he ever seems to exhibit is poking his head out when he's hungry, and twisting and gyrating to "flush" when he drops a bomb. His color and appetite are great, great enough I can't put any even remotely cylinder shaped fish in his tank, I used to have 3 lionfish, then my moray grew up.
I'm not telling you to stuff a 3 foot eel into a 30g tank, but FWIW my 3 foot fimbriatus only uses about 5g worth of space in the 150 he's in.. once they find homes they're not too eager to leave, so I see how that sort of rumor could get started, and that it could be done. I don't see problems with space so much as waste, when morays eat they make a mess, and what they do manage to get into their mouths comes back out... my eel craps bigger than my cat, not something you want in a 30g I don't care how much filtration you've got.
Before I get flamed, my morays cave has 5 openings, all of which are big enough for him to get out of, he chooses not to leave. The only activity he ever seems to exhibit is poking his head out when he's hungry, and twisting and gyrating to "flush" when he drops a bomb. His color and appetite are great, great enough I can't put any even remotely cylinder shaped fish in his tank, I used to have 3 lionfish, then my moray grew up.
A large Gymnothorax eel can eat lionfish, yes. I learned the hard way. I had two volitans and a russelli, all 3 had cave homes near my morays lair, over the course of a week I just stopped seeing them, and noticed that the moray had gotten morbidly obese.
An Echidna moray such as a snowflake will leave fish alone unless it's starving or the fish in question is asking for a quick death, crustaceans are the preferred prey of the Echidna genus.
Given my prediliction for fish over corals this is the first and last big Gymnothorax I'll ever keep.
An Echidna moray such as a snowflake will leave fish alone unless it's starving or the fish in question is asking for a quick death, crustaceans are the preferred prey of the Echidna genus.
Given my prediliction for fish over corals this is the first and last big Gymnothorax I'll ever keep.
my eel will kill anything in there lion's, scorpinfish, sea goblin's nothing can be with him
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