I have a tesselata eel

joe72

joe72

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I bought the guy knowing I was dealing with a eel but not the largest. He has became 3 feet of pure power taking out my 9inch stars and stripe puffer which had earn his stripes for being a ***. I keep telling myself that I should have known better, but I really wanted him and I paid the cost. Now I'm stuck with him and willing keep him and learn the ways of the beast. I have 150 gallon tank and a 50gal sump systems and in the process of building a tide pool system with live rock. What can I do to maximize his stay in my tank. And when times up what do I do?!
please choose better words cussing is not allowed
 
kjr_trig

kjr_trig

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Yeah, Tessy's are monster Eels and likely highly predatory, I don't think it would be wise to try to keep any fish with one. 150 is on the small side for a 3 foot Eel. Where do you live? is there a local aquarium you could perhaps donate him to?
 
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eric b 125

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i have an (idiot) friend that has a tank that would make most of us puke, that includes a tessy. its a custom 150 that cost the original person $8k and he bought it for $1k. its a weird octagon, with 4' front/back panels. we built a pvc "cage" for his LR so that the eel has more space to chill. aside from the tessy, which has no place in a 150, he has a panther grouper which also shouldnt be in a 150 and some other grouper that i cant remember right now. along with these fish he has terrible hair algae and even worse aiptasia. he insists that he's getting a 10' tank, but i dont see it happening anytime soon. here's a pic of his eel and a blk hawaiin trigger that he got rid of....
 
joe72

joe72

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I live in Dallas, but I already figured I would have to keep him by himself. My tank is well kept and neat, I have 5 Feather Dusters and 200pounds of rock with a glass top so he cannot Escape. I was thinking to making a custom tank that was tall from the ground snice he may get 5foot + or in last case I would have to donate him but I dont want to because the fish store can make double profit and sell him to a dumb kid that will prob kill him. I'm looking for people that know deep info about the this eel hands on. Any info or stories will be good too
 
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eric b 125

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^ I hope you didn't read my last post thinking that I was also calling you an idiot, because that certainly wasn't my intention. I just re-read it and saw that it could possibly be taken that way.
 
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