eels

Hi all, I bought a baby fire eel roughly 8 months ago and put him in my 180 loach grow out tank (roughly 4 inches). he had been doing very well and growing super fast. 1 day roughly A month ago I noticed he had been swimming super funny and laying upside down a lot, upon further inspection it...

greetings, i recently bought myself a pair of freshwater tiger morays and ever since the first 4 days, i haven’t seen them. likely they are hiding in the logs but they haven’t been coming out or eating. i’ve thrown in bloodworms which is what they were eating previously along with other foods...

Hello everyone! My name is mia and i'm 15 years old. I registered on here because I needed advice from others who are more experienced than me! I am not very huge on fish myself but my father is. He is very passionate about his fish tank but lately one of his dinosaur eel (I think that's the...

My original plan was to get a fire eel and just upgrade it when it outgrows, but im not sure if that is a good idea. Please help!

Hi. Long time lurker, first time poster. I have a lot of experience in freshwater aquaria, and recently I've been very tempted to try salt. I found a nice 45g cube-styled aquarium on LiveAquaria, measuring 26.5" x 22" x 19". Can't post a link because this is my first post, but it has a...

Hi everyone, I keep a 100 gal tank of Peacocks/Haps and have been wanting to add an eel, not just any eel, I want a challenge, I want something exotic, I want something that stands out. After much research in an attempt to find a freshwater eel that is not a tire track or a fire eel, I have...

a eel who is at least 155 years old dies in Sweden. In the 1880,s a boy threw an eel in a well, (Common practice at the time, eels kept the well clean of dead insects) The eel (named Ale) spent all those years there, until recently when Ale was found dead :rip Ale is survived by a upstart eel...

Hey guys! So I just recently moved and set up my 400gallon tank in my new home. It’s 8 foot wide 2 foot 3 deep and 2 foot tall.. and succefully moved all my fish from the 120gal... I dropped a bichir but he’s fine :o . I transferred the canister with them and slowly acclimated them so the tank...

Hey yall I got a new spiney eels he’s currently about 14 or so enches long and about an inch in diameter he’s truly beautiful.. but! He incessantly tries to swim into the canisters outflow and he knocks it off and has scraped his head once. Any idea on how to deter him from doing this and...

Hey everyone I don’t post often and I really should but I’m looking everywhere for advice and this is a likely spot. I’ve got 4 spiny eels right now one 15 inch tire track eel one 5 inch zig zag eel one 10 inch Borneo python eel and my beloved 16 inch fire eel I’ve raised from a baby. He has...

Got a 125g with 3 black spotted eels (roughly 12”, 14”, 16-18”), they’re all pretty established, no aggression issues, all got their little territories and swim right around each other peaceful enough. Now I want some active top/middle of the tank fish to add some movement to the tank when...

Here is the problem. I am an American and I live in Israel, in a small town in the Negev desert. Despite this aquariums are a common hobby in this town and there are 5 pet shops in this small town of 40,000 people. However the variety of fish available are limited and tend to rarely change...

Hey guys I recently saw this eel at my lfs, looks really interesting and the guy says its freshwater, is that true? If yes I would love too keep him with some juvi peacock bass? Any info on this guy would be appreciated Thanks in advance

Hi I was wondering if I could get some help I purchased a fire eel and 2 bolivian rams at my lfs today and I noticed these white specks on the fire eels tail so I thought it was ich so I added 1/3 dose to the tank to see if that helps. We'll now the eel is completely white and I'm unsure what to...

So after a lot of financial distress over the past couple of years I am finally at a stable and comfortable point. I have bought a 125 gallon tank and it's currently cycling and will be for around the next few weeks. I got a peacock Eel from a friend who bought it on impulse and had neither the...

Yes I know there are a couple tropicals in there, I had to take down their tank and but they will be restored to their own tank soon...

I have been scouring the internet for red or garnet sand for my bichirs and eels.I haven't been able to find it and I wanted to help bring out my bichirs colors by switching my substrate from white sand to either red,black or brown sand.What is also a good 'size or grit' of sand for bichirs?

The tank has a 16 inch tall open Riparium canopy with sliding glass doors, so emersed plants can grow and the fish can jump without hitting a lid. At the moment I keep: x2 Polypterus bichir lapradei x2 P. endlicheri x1 P. congicus x1 P. ansorgii x1 P. polli x1 P. senegalus x3 P...

I ordered a dwarf giraffe catfish from WetSpot tropicals!! Super excited when I saw it up for sale, I even lowered my stock and changed my tank around to soot him better. My question is I have a maybe 4 inch zig zag eel in the tank, he's always out and never really hiding so could he become...