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spiny eel/peacock eel

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daitenshi

Feeder Fish
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Just wondering if anyone else keeps these cool little fish and what they feed them?
Just got one for my bro's community tank the other day.

Most of the time he chills out under the gravel which is cool. I'm just worried about him being inactive when I put in some black worms for him to chow down on.

Most of the black worms that I have tried to feed him have just ended up on the gravel and he has ignored them. Does anyone else have this issue?

And also, with the black worms that do get into the gravel will they just be eaten later on by the clown loaches and the spiney eel?
 
I've got 3 of these guys. I gave up on keeping them in tanks with substrate, it was impossible to feed them. They live in a tank with lots of broken pots and tubes for hiding out. Their the fussiest eaters alive and I've only just weaned them off handfeeding, I've had them for 6 months. Try waving bloodworms in front of his face with tweezers and see if you can get him to start actively hunting for them, or at least eat a few. Thats how I fed my 3 for ages, now I drop a still frozen bloodworm cube into the filter current and as it melts it drops bloodworms all over the tank, their to shy to come up to the cube. This generally only works though if there aren't any other fish in the tank.

Oh and what other fish are you keeping it with? Once my guys hit 6 inch my adult guppies started disappearing...

Oh and they don't move much, they kinda just hang
 
The tank contains
4 bristlenose catfish
4 clown loaches
3 3 spot gourami
7 neon tetras
2 bolivian butterfly
1 spiny eel

I'll try the hand feeding thing tonight.

The gourami's are pigs and will pounce on anything as soon as it goes in the tank.
 
Ahhh well...they can be easily replaced :P
Plus, if they start vanishing at least I know he is eating.

Some of the tetras are getting big now though.
 
Great inhabitant of aquariums, but not a community fish, and depending on the species, they can get very big, and sometimes need very large aquariums. I generally feed silversides, krill and primarily worms and bloodworms.
 
The eel listed was a peacock, only gets to about 12 inch
 
The eels listed were... a spiny eel, which covers many species in the Mastacembelus and Macrognathus species, and peacock eel (which often can be mislabeled).
 
The shop had it labled as a spiny eel and the guy at the shop said it's other name is a peacock eel.
He's only about 5 inch long at the moment but if he starts to get too big I'll have to setup a bigger tank for him.
He's a cool looking little fish.
 
Does he look like this???

Peacock eel, [SIZE=-1]Macrognathus siamensis.[/SIZE]
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