Spiny eel ID

Charney · Feb 19, 2018

bathawk said:
here is a shot of my peacock eel showing the spots on the rear fin

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very interesting. the video is of the actual fish. If it helps they came in as borneo eels

DeeBee · Feb 19, 2018

Charney said:
very interesting. the video is of the actual fish. If it helps they came in as borneo eels

Searching for macrognathus of Borneo I have found m aculeatus. Viewing images of course brings up all sorts but there are some that do appear to be aculeatus. When searching aculeatus this came up http://novataxa.blogspot.co.uk/2011/08/ichthyology-2009-macrognathus.html
Again there is m dorsiocellatus which they state is from the aculeatus group tho it's from Myanmar.
I am no expert on these spiny eels just a digger for information as i am endlessly frustrated by the misidendentification especially of the commonly kept species.

Charney · Feb 19, 2018

DeeBee said:
Searching for macrognathus of Borneo I have found m aculeatus. Viewing images of course brings up all sorts but there are some that do appear to be aculeatus. When searching aculeatus this came up http://novataxa.blogspot.co.uk/2011/08/ichthyology-2009-macrognathus.html
Again there is m dorsiocellatus which they state is from the aculeatus group tho it's from Myanmar.
I am no expert on these spiny eels just a digger for information as i am endlessly frustrated by the misidendentification especially of the commonly kept species.

Think you got it. Thank you

bathawk · Feb 19, 2018

so many different types no wonder some seller's sometimes sell eels under the wrong names. The second one from the top looks like Charney's eel.

MisterToken · Aug 9, 2019

Hi there,

We picked up this eel this morning. The guy at the aquarium said that they came in instead of their order of Peacock eels. They love live worms and seemed social.
It's about 7inches.