Tire Track Vs Fire Eel
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Hey MFK
I was wondering, Can i keep a tire track eel and fire eel together? (Both of the same size)
Which of the 2 are faster growers?
Easier to keep?
TIA
SharptoothBass
There is a lot of debate on both of those.
Generally speaking fire eels seem to get bigger though, and thus likely will grow faster as well.
For keeping them together some people say spiny eels will fight too much, some people have a dozen in a tank. I'd lean towards saying if you have a big enough tank with enough hiding places / territories they'd be fine.
Generally speaking fire eels seem to get bigger though, and thus likely will grow faster as well.
For keeping them together some people say spiny eels will fight too much, some people have a dozen in a tank. I'd lean towards saying if you have a big enough tank with enough hiding places / territories they'd be fine.
Thanks guys so fire eel it is...
Hey I've got a dozen spinys. And I can tell you that from what I can gather from my experince is that aggreasing usually only happens between same species.
For example, my black spotted eel never bothered anyone. Then I got a 2nd black spotted eel and my original one would attack it on sight. Got rid of the new bse and the original is chill.
I have two small zebrinus eels. One is dominant between the two and will attak often although not as much as the black spotted did
But he leaves all other eels alone.
I've got 2 fire eels(13" and 16"), a black spotted eel(14"), and a tire track eel(18") in the same tank and here is what I've noticed majority of the nipping is between the fire eels but sometimes they do nip the tire track or black spot. That being said it doesn't happen very often. As far as which grows faster it really depends on what you can get them to eat at first the fire eels were growing fastest then the tire track eel started eating tilapia and jumped from second smallest to biggest in 2 months