Anyone have experience with Snake Eel Blenny-Xiphasia setifer

[NYAquatic]

We've gotten a couple of these interesting fish in recently.
Really cool, but very little information available on them.
Anyone kept one?
Temperment?
Coral/invert safe?

Thought it would be fun to gather info here.

 

[NYAquatic]

 

[7hogwarts]

Don't know anything about them. Pretty cool looking though. My biggest concern might be if it is venomous.

 

[LostInTheDark]

Wow! Thats different. Did you get it to eat yet?

 

[NYAquatic]

Eating like a pig
Krill
Mysis
Brine
Grabs out of water column and off ground

 

[eatbreakfast]

From what I understand they are nocturnal and burrowing, beyond that there isn't a ton of info.

 

[NYAquatic]

This guy is pretty active but in a bare bottom tank

Maybe I'll move it to a sand bed tank

 

[cu455]

I had one, when I added it my grouper swallowed a few inches of it. I got the grouper to spit it out but it ended up dying. I then bought another and used an acclimation box and it is doing well. I have had it for a little less then 2 years. It doesn't bury, he will hang out under a rock. He is good with coral, snails and a couple of cleaner shrimp.

 

[Jlobes]

crazy!! never even heard of it!

 

[DiverGirl82]

How are these guys doing?