whats your experience with them and their diet also whats their growth rate like? i have a 55 with pool filter sand and a few pieces of wood. will pool filter sand scratch them?
wanna get out of cichlids and get a fire eel
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Fire eels get huge but I hear they don't grow that fast, but that 55 would need to be upgraded eventually
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Your looking at a min 180 gallon tank for it. The 55 you have now you might get a year to a year an a half, if you buy a 3-4 inch baby. They Grow fast when young but tend to slow a bit when they get to 12-15 inches. Pool sand is good. Must have a tight lid, they like to escape. Provide plenty of caves or PVC pipe for them to hide. Water quality is a must. Very very sensitive to nitrates. As you may know they can get huge.
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yeah i done research on them a while back back and only remembered that they grow to 24" or around that, wont really accept pellets and they need smooth substrate. what would be a good diet for one who isnt pellet trained and how to leave them get use to the tank like should leave the lights off for a few days
Never heard of pellet training them. My tire track eats earth worms, shrimp, bloodworms, krill. Sometimes I put pellets inside the shrimp pieces I feed him.
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i have read in a few places and i even think on here there are a few who have tried and might have succeeded
Before I sold mine, I fed it earthworms tilapia and shrimp then one day I just stopped feeding it and after a few days, I offered it a massivore pellet. After about a week it started eating them
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My old fire eel i couldnt get onto pellets no matter how hard i tried...
Also, there max length is more along the lines if around 3' with the largest one i've seen on video reaching about 40"+
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Also, there max length is more along the lines if around 3' with the largest one i've seen on video reaching about 40"+
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Wow. Well I did get a new fish but it's still a cichlid. I went with a Thai silk flowerhorn
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