Housing eels with eels

[thehat]

Here is a crazy or not so crazy question. Is it possible to have more than one eel in a tank and Of different kinds. I have a 65 gallon tank with a zebra and a couple of other fish and was wondering if this is even possible. The zebra eel is about 20 inches.

 

[grouperhead]

You can usually get away with mixing the 'pebble tooth' eels. You get into trouble when you try to mix the piscivorous species. Bo

 

[thehat]

Ok that helps. What are some different types of peppled tooth eels that would apply. And this would be ok in a 65 to 70 gallon tank? Just to make sure?

 

[grouperhead]

Snowflake and chainlink come to mind. IMO, a zebra will get a little large for that size tank. You could also look into goldentails, golden dwarfs, and a few other more rare species. Bo

 

[thehat]

The book I had recomended the 70 gallon tank for the zebra. I was thinking about a golden tail my fish store just got some in and that is why I was asking. I do have a clown fish a pygmy angel and a hawk fish in the tank also and figured the golden tail eel would eat them. Do they eat fish very mucH? My bio load is probably to much.

 

[beach bum]

If you don't mind your "couple of other fish" being eaten eventually and a slight element of risk it is possible to mix one of the more reclusive piscivorous eels with a "pebble tooth eel". Having the more aggressive being smaller helps. Twice I have seen large-ish (30" or so) zebra eels with a yellow-head moray. But the yellow head is fairly tame as compared to other larger species. Two aggressisives though, means trouble, ime.
How about a pair of zebras?
hth

 

[jumpfrog]

I'm keeping 3 morays (SFE, zebra and and unknown - hopefully pebble tooth ) with a wolf eel (aka carpet blenny) in my 125. No problems to date and last night all 3 were sharing the same cave.

 

[chrismilano]

My snowflake eel and my zebra moray eel sleep together during the day and hunt from the same cave at night!
The ribbon eel doesnt bother either of them.

 

[g-reef]

have them in a 180 gallon. they are ok together but nothing can be kept with them except starfish and hermit crabs. everytin else is food