Farley I have a snowflake as well and through information I have read and found is that bloating can be caused by 2 things that I am aware of.
1) your v-lion could have stung him... the tank i recently purchased had an sfe, vlion and a clown grouper....the gy who i bought from told me the eel was once stung by the vlion and got swollen....although he looked like Shite he recovered in a couple weeks as I was told... so if its recent past couple days just hold off and monitor.
2) what are you feeding it? Everyone at the lfs's say silversides and thats it....bs... silversides don't provide all the nutrients they require to have a full variety of nutrition they require. I went to grocery store and purchased fresh squid today in fact to feed him silversides, clam(lfs frozen pack enriched with vitamin C), and fresh squid from grocery...3 squids=65 cents...equals I am going to soon be getting from grocery store only...alot cheaper! I also got a masher and a bowl combo and purchase garlic. basically mash 2 cloves in the bowl real good. get a small amount of water from your tank and poor in bowl mix it around..basicallyy turning yellow...bought a small cup size strainer and strain out the juic from the cloves into a dixie cup and let his squid and clam soak in it for about 10-15 minutes.... F-er ate it up instantly... equals happy eel... Sorry I went on but in case you didn't have the info you are a little more educated as I was taught through reading.. good luck!
Nick
btw here is a pic of my badboy and he is about 22" long now.
