Snowflake escaped

[stw280]

I just came home to find my snowflake eel had escaped out of my 210 FWLR and had slid his way around to the front of the tank. I quicky tossed him back in and he seems to be fine. I've read other similar stories that ended well. He couldn't have been out for more than a few hours how are his chances? Is their anything I should do besides try to eel-prof the top of my tank.

 

[nicetry]

Eels are fairly bulletproof. Chances are it will be fine. Keep the lights off for a day and allow it to settle down a bit. Definitely seal the tank very well.

 

[stw280]

Thanks alot. I think he will be ok.

 

[fishieness]

he hsould be. When striper fishing if you use eels, you can make them last all weekend as long as they are on ice, not even in water.

 

[ludachris821]

they have a thick slime coating to help with coming out of water, some eels when desperate will chase a crab on to dry land, it helps them matain there oxegyn

 

[stw280]

The eel is fine in fact he just bit off half of my volitan lions fine. Do these regenerate? Anyone had an experience like this.

 

[jer4916]

my eel would always tick my lion off...then they all died
you might have to seperate them depending on how bad it gets....mine was never that bad...they pretty much stay'd on different sides of the tank.
~chris

 

[tennisace]

Just remember, if it happens again and u can't find him, check the filtration, once my old SFE got into the filter, swam through the pipes and ended up ontop of my bioballs lol.

 

[felix15]

Ha mine escaped today. I tore my tank apart but it was easy. I only have a 29 gallon eclipse. Im kinda worried cause those tanks are totally sealed and there is one small hole in the back that i covered in tape so im just simply puzzled on how he got out. I found him almost 4 hours later when i realised he coulda went under the stand and sure enough he was there. I threw him back again after maybe hoping he was still alive and man was i astonished. He slowly crept back alive like a twicthing dog? When there out the slime will harden and once put back in water it flakes off. After about 2 hours of "Unhybernating" he started to finally swim. 10 hours later he was perfectly fine except now he was timid. It was weird.

 

[ludachris821]

mine was out over 8 hours i think and didnt recover, my tank was totaly sealed as well, i think he poped open the lid

 

[felix15]

Danget luckily i wasnt emotionally attached to my clownfish carnavore snowflake eel. He seriously ate two of my clownfish that where twice his size. He died the next morning i foung him outta the tank> But i noticed he ate one of my clownfish whole and you could actually see the orange body inside about a third the way down from his head. Im wondering if that could been why he died?