need help for my freshwater moray eel...
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Hey you should post some pics!!
Don't worry about it's eating. Sometimes, when you bring a moray home, it won't eat from two weeks to even three months. Other times it'll eat the same day you buy it. When I bought my "Freshwater", I think he went about two months. I just got impatient, so I bouht him a couple of feeders just to get him going. Now, I feed him shrimp from the store.
Do you know the whole freshwater/brachishwater/saltwater deal with freshwater morays? There are a few missunderstandings around the subject. Especialy when a store just wants to sell it.
Don't worry about it's eating. Sometimes, when you bring a moray home, it won't eat from two weeks to even three months. Other times it'll eat the same day you buy it. When I bought my "Freshwater", I think he went about two months. I just got impatient, so I bouht him a couple of feeders just to get him going. Now, I feed him shrimp from the store.
Do you know the whole freshwater/brachishwater/saltwater deal with freshwater morays? There are a few missunderstandings around the subject. Especialy when a store just wants to sell it.
thanks for the info Fabio's Dad!!!
ill post some pics later. try to borrow a cam from my friends...
honestly, its my first time to have a freshwater moray eel and i dont have any idea how to take care of it. until i read some articles, i discovered that it is a brackish fish. youre right, i think the LFS just wants to sell it. he even told me that they feed it with pellets, in which i doubted. thats why i am asking for your help and advices...
aside from the shrimp from store and feeders, what could i feed it? should it accept beefheart?
I've never gotten my eels to eat the beef heart, but I haven't tried that hard. They like silversides, too. I fed Fabio, my green moray silversides. He would eat a 16oz bag in 3 feedings!!!! I'm really not too comfortable with feeding any of my fish store feeders anymore. They might carry some disease or bacteria.
As far as 'freshwater eels' go, they're usually born in freshwater and sometimes get food in freshwater. This happens to be when they get caught. My Gymnothorax Tile is thriving in full marine water. When I bought him he was sold to me as a freshwater snowflake eel. I gradually aclimated him to salt. Although, I've heard of them being tossed right into saltwater from fresh with no problem.
As far as 'freshwater eels' go, they're usually born in freshwater and sometimes get food in freshwater. This happens to be when they get caught. My Gymnothorax Tile is thriving in full marine water. When I bought him he was sold to me as a freshwater snowflake eel. I gradually aclimated him to salt. Although, I've heard of them being tossed right into saltwater from fresh with no problem.
hi Fabio's Dad!!! its me again....
sorry coz i dont have any pics of my eel yet...
thanks for the info again. i have another question, how do you feed your eel? do you have to handfeed it or by just dropping the food inside the tank? ive read an article that eels have poor eyesight and they hunt by smelling, is that true? at this time, my eel is doing fine with my 2 senegalus, 3 tinfoil bards and a silver dollar. and this morning i made a rock formation for my eel to hide in and to avoid stress. so, what do i have to do to feed it? thanks again.....
sorry coz i dont have any pics of my eel yet...
thanks for the info again. i have another question, how do you feed your eel? do you have to handfeed it or by just dropping the food inside the tank? ive read an article that eels have poor eyesight and they hunt by smelling, is that true? at this time, my eel is doing fine with my 2 senegalus, 3 tinfoil bards and a silver dollar. and this morning i made a rock formation for my eel to hide in and to avoid stress. so, what do i have to do to feed it? thanks again.....
I would use one of two methods for feeding it. One method is using a clear rigid tubing, and place it in the water down near the eels face. Put whatever you are feeding him in the tube and let it fall right in front of his face. Method two is a feeding prong. Both Fabio's dad and I use these.
i dont know actually what kind of freshwater moray eel it is coz its my first time to have it. it has a light brown coloration with flake-like spots...
I used that method only on fire eels. They can actually be trained to come up the tube when it is put in the water. And I did use beefheart for them.