wanna get an eel for shark tank

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cohl120

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I'm wanting to add a eel to my shark and ray tank, but I also have several tangs and butterfly fish with the sharks so it cant be anything too aggressive.
I had a nice zebra eel but apparently he was a snack for my grouper, the eel was almost 16 inches and the grouper is only 6 inches. the grouper isn't going to be in the tank with the eel so that's not a issue, I was considering getting another zebra eel but kinda wanted something different this time. Would a tessalatta eel be an option or possibly a dragon eel? If these are too aggressive let me know and I am open to any opinions on better eels or any tank mates you wanna recommend. thanks
 
I would say no to the Tess. heard to many horror stories about them tearing fish in half just for fun. I had a Whitemouth moray which I think are beautiful eels and get to about 30" or so. Another one is Golden Eel ( not dwarf) which is a cool looking one too. If you contact Toms Caribbean Tropicals.com I think he can line you up with last one or I can line you up with a diver in Hawaii for the Whitemouths or a Dragon.
 
cohl120;4318082; said:
yea its 1200 and the smallest fish I have is a 4 inch butterfly fish
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dam so your going to need a non fish eater. Yet something that will be noticable in a 1200 gallon..... Honestly man your going to be gambling if you don't do a chainlink moray, snowflake or a zebra. I guess my best advice would be another zebra just because they don't eat fish, and grow big enough to really add to a tank. You don't have to many other options just because the tank is SO big and the fish are so small.


What would be really stunning is a garden of garden eels. Check out in this video they are really stunning creatures and sway in the current. A back of 10-20 would look really cool in your tank at 1:05
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TheCanuck;4318468; said:
I did have some baby fish with my green moray for quite some time. Like all great things, they eventually fail.
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wow expensive feeders you got there lol

those garden eels look interesting, very long and seem to need a very deep bed of sand
 
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