Electric eel

[BOOMSHAKER]

Hi guys. I’ve recently had an electric eel. I had put a small cichlid in with him and he has lived fine with it for a couple of months. I’ve seen a few videos of electric eels in tanks with other fish. Has anybody else had good experiences with adding fish to an electric eel tank?

 

[tlindsey]

Has anybody else had good experiences with adding fish to an electric eel tank?

I've never heard of anyone adding fish to coexist with a electric eel. Only fish added were for food.
Electric eel's impulse will probably stress other species out.

 

[BOOMSHAKER]

I thought that. But I’ve seen videos of Midas and stuff swimming around happily with a few electric eels. And that little jewel cichlid I had in there was happy as Larry.

 

[Deadeye]

How big is the eel? It’s hard to imagine the cichlid not becoming lunch eventually.
Any of the sensory signals probably won’t harm the cichlid, but once it does a kill shock it probably won’t be fun to be in the same tank.

 

[BOOMSHAKER]

The eel is 2 foot. The cichlid was about 3 inch. The eel has shocked my finger and my sister’s boyfriends arm, but the jewel never seemed bothered. I also added 50 guppies. They all touched him and were fine. They soon got gobbled in the night though.

 

[tlindsey]

The eel has shocked my finger and my sister’s boyfriends arm,

As a concerned member thats equivalent to playing Russian roulette. The electric eel I believe even at that size could discharge enough voltage to kill a man.