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Dudzy;4089735; said:
I have decided to go on a secret fishing mission into a 'public place'.... there is an eel in there that is as thick as a football and I want it in my pond!
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I always found with putting big eels going in to my ponds is that they tended to leave the pond at night. Sticking them in as babies and growing them out they would stay in there and learn to handfeed.
 
masone is right Dudzy if you put a big eel in it will probably do a runner.
Eventually they will all try to leave to spawn might take 30 years though.
Get some 30 cm ones and grow them, if I come accross any will hang on to them for you
 
masone;4090228; said:
I always found with putting big eels going in to my ponds is that they tended to leave the pond at night. Sticking them in as babies and growing them out they would stay in there and learn to handfeed.
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Yeah, woke up this morning to a slithering monster on my front lawn :P
aussiemonsters;4090308; said:
masone is right Dudzy if you put a big eel in it will probably do a runner.
Eventually they will all try to leave to spawn might take 30 years though.
Get some 30 cm ones and grow them, if I come accross any will hang on to them for you
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How long does it take to grow them out? apparently it takes two years for them to reach 2 inch :|
 
Yes turtleking some sort of Esox species either pike or muskies.
Dudzy Eels grow to 30cm max 1st year maybe only 20 cm depends on enviroment, Bs hit 30 in the feeder/shrimp ponds no probs. Mate has one in a 6x2x2 had it since it was 100mm (bought legally) 5 years old 70 cm pretty cool, very tame, eats anything.
Live for a long time aged to 45 years, travel downstream and out to the coral sea somewhere, no one knows exactly to spawn then die. Larvae develop at sea then return to most likely natal stream as elvers and travel upstream, can surmount any obstacle even the highest dam wall as long as it is damp.
 
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