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·There both good eels. I have a tire track eel that's about 10"-11" long. The only drawbacks to keeping these spiney eels is their finicky eating habits and their ability to slither out of the aquarium. I woke up once in the middle of the night to find my eel on my living room floor, presumably attempting to crawl back to India.
During the winter, I have to buy live blackworms for my eel because he stopped eating frozen food.
Right now, the eel does some strange stuff like crawling out of the tank and climbing into the Aquaclear filter on his tank. He then peers out the spout and watches what's going on in the room. Sometimes he pulls down the plastic box that holds the sponge and slithers into the motor compartment. The other night I heard him hit the impellar of the motor: ERRR-R-R-R-R-R!! He didn't get hurt, yet.
Tire track eels seem to be more common and less expensive than fire eels. I can't remember exactly, but I think I paid $7.00 for my eel at the Shark Aquarium.
During the winter, I have to buy live blackworms for my eel because he stopped eating frozen food.
Right now, the eel does some strange stuff like crawling out of the tank and climbing into the Aquaclear filter on his tank. He then peers out the spout and watches what's going on in the room. Sometimes he pulls down the plastic box that holds the sponge and slithers into the motor compartment. The other night I heard him hit the impellar of the motor: ERRR-R-R-R-R-R!! He didn't get hurt, yet.
Tire track eels seem to be more common and less expensive than fire eels. I can't remember exactly, but I think I paid $7.00 for my eel at the Shark Aquarium.
a tire track eel was my first fish
i had him in my 29 gallon for like 2 years
he was real finicky eater and my dad would use to have to wiggle shrimp in fornt of him to entyvce him to eat but i bel;ieve there metabolisim is slower cuz they dont swim around alot and there very cureous and i realy cant bring myself to 35 dollars more for a firew track eel at my LFS
i had him in my 29 gallon for like 2 years
he was real finicky eater and my dad would use to have to wiggle shrimp in fornt of him to entyvce him to eat but i bel;ieve there metabolisim is slower cuz they dont swim around alot and there very cureous and i realy cant bring myself to 35 dollars more for a firew track eel at my LFS
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peacock eels are not just hard to get eating dried/dead foods, they are just fussyer than other eels I have come across, they have prooven to me as hard to keep.sweet lu said:
my 2 eels posted above though are great, the tyre-track one is more active, but the fire one is friendly to small fish like neon tetras where the tyre-track is not, it even took down an angelfish once, and would chase the fire eel about.
as far as the price went:
fire eel = £30 @12"
tyre-track eel = £8 @ 10"
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I was gonna say Electric also.
I like that Tyre Track Eel, dont think i have ever seen one before
I like that Tyre Track Eel, dont think i have ever seen one before
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