How much should I feed my fire eel?

[Bking1998]

I bought a fire eel recently I've had him for about a month and he's eating dozen blood worms fine about a cube a day is that enough food for him or should I be feeding him more?

 

[Bking1998]

I bought a fire eel recently I've had him for about a month and he's eating blood worms fine about a cube a day is that enough food for him or should I be feeding him more?

 

[tlindsey]

Thats good to hear the Fire Eel is eating try to add more food items such as pellets and small live earthworm rotate them in feeding routine.

 

[F3l1ss]

What size is it?

 

[Cosmic_surfer]

Fire eels and the spiney eels in general are extremely difficult to pellet feed...

Advice from a seasoned fire eel keeper: start with blood worms as you are doing now. Don't worry about over feeding too much when it comes to the cubes, most of the cube you are feeding it is made up of water, and the actual substance of worm is small. If I could recommend, depending on size, I would toss in 3 or 4 cubes. Whatever he doesn't eat his tank mates will. As the eel enters the 6 inch size it is good to start feeding red wiggler worms and eventually going to night crawlers. At about a foot he should be on nightcrawlers, at this point you can introduce a pellet by deception. Go to the store and buy some frozen uncooked shrimp. Smash it into a past and grind a pellet up into it. Your fire eel will smell that seafood and grab it quickly, never knowing of the pellet it is getting. You may be able to ween into pellets gradually by reducing shrimp to pellet dust ratio over time, but a happy healthy eel has more expensive tastes in afraid.