Spaghetti eels!?!

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Mount_Prion

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These are so cool!

They have them at my LFS.

Anybody know about their care? Anybody kept them? Do they need brackish at some point?

I was thinking about grabbing some to put in my swamp (and probably never see again) but they're so skinny I'd be worried they'd get through the grate on my pipe and end up in the sump, haha.

[video=youtube;OfFxTzb01YM]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OfFxTzb01YM[/video]
 
I had two of them and two of the violet gobys..in a bare tank...just sand nothing else..and to this day i have no clue were they went..i sifted threw sand and looked all over for like a week:screwy: they did look cool for the two weeks though lol..i was feeding mine brine shrimp..but honestly i think its a waist of money.

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keep them without substrate.
 
I stopped by pacific and ended up getting three of them because I have never seen these fish before. Did a little research, and I would say fairly confidently that these are Pisodonophis boro, common name glass eel, and not Moringua raitaborua, common name Purple spaghetti eel. Figured I would mention this. Of course, both species are said to do better in brackish.
 
"Like many other eel families, spaghetti eels bury themselves in the day, emerging to feed on smaller creatures at night. Unlike other eels however, spaghetti eels burrow head-first; the pointed, heavily ossified skull and the reduced eyes are said to be adaptations for such a lifestyle. Compare this to the snake eels and the garden eels, which possess adaptations for burrowing tail-first (although some snake eel species are also adapted to some degree for head-first burrowing)."

I have watched these eels burrow tail-first.
 
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