SNOWFLAKE EEL HELP!

[oxtim12345]

I got one about 2 weeks ago and i havn't seen him eat let. I've tried squid and shrimp with a feeder stick and he just looks at it and them usually hides back in the rock. Just yesterday i saw him swimming all over the tank thinking he was hungry, but he didn't even go for the food. Any Advise.

 

[guppie]

You could ask the place where you got him from what they were feeding him, have you tryed krill yet I know mine love it I also feed him lance fish. All I can tell you is to keep on trying, some fish will go awhile with not eatting. Is there anyone in the tank picking on him, that could also be a cause. Good Luck

 

[pufferlover]

try either krill or small silversides frozen on the stick rub it under its chin and then hold it in front of its mouth and see what happens. My little snowflake is very picky on food and sometimes does not eat for 3 or 4 days (not unusual for a eel tho) my bigger one eats every darn day and it gets big frozen silversides and krill. Just picked up a Golden Moray eel tonight and it went in my 135 which is my most established tank. This is the first fish I have added to that tank in 4 years and did so with some concern but the other fish altho following it around are not giving it a hard time (hope not it cost 4 times what my snows did).

 

[@knight]

pufferlover,
when you get a chance, you should post some pics of your new eel. either here or on your yahoo club. i would really like to see it.

 

[pufferlover]

@knight ; I will try to get my friend to come and get a picture of it as it is a very pretty eel and the darn thing has been all over the tank tonight looking for its new home. It also did not like its reflection in the side glass and kept going back to it and opening its mouth real big. I debated about spending what I did for it but the ones I found on the sites were all much more then I got this one for so a deal is a deal. The lfs guy had it for a while and had moved it into his very large LR tank when he put a Green Moray in the other tank and they did not get along. Took him forever to find and catch the thing but for what it cost I stood there and let him do the work. I have become a eel fanatic and yet just a year ago when my son said I should get one I said who would want one of those things (now I have 3).

 

[guppie]

Pufferlover those eels will do it to you. I can not beleive how active mine is I have heard of others only seeing theirs maybe swim around their tanks once a day, mine is always out swimming, I am hooked. Good Luck

 

[pufferlover]

guppie you are right they are habit forming. This morning after checking on where the eel might be I found he has taken up residence under a large decoration with a space under it that another fish had called home but it has had to move. The hard part will figuring how to get food to it while keeping the others busy at the other end tonight. The Trigger and Blue Moon feel all food is their property and I want to start the eel if possible on the feeding stick but luckily he is living at the opposite end of where they are used to feeding (have to enlist the wife tonight till I see if it eats).

 

[justchillin]

mine loves frozen brine shrimp, but see what the lfs was feeding it. he may just be a picky eater...

 

[mark24]

Puffer- How much did you pay for that golden moray? Arent they pretty expensive? I think that my lfs has a real pretty eel that is a yellow/golden color and the guy there said that they got it off the coast of Brazil and its a deep water eel. It was $400! It also had a few black spots on it. Its wasnt very big, and it was in a pretty reef tank. Is that a golden moray? Or what eel?
-Mark