wesman42
Valuable Member
I went to a frag swap a few days ago, and got a pistol shrimp hoping he'd help my goby out.
I had** a small 6 inch snowflake eel in the tank. I figured he wouldn't try for anything much larger than him but I was wrong....he chomped on the pistol shrimp in nearly one bite. There one minute, gone the next.
Fast forward to today, and I'm feeding the rest of my fish in the tank. The eel tries to take a chunk out of my melanurus wrasse. The eel was fed first because I read it helps to avoid situations like that. Apparently not. The wrasse is nearly 4 inches long and probably 2 in circumference.
I had the lid off of the tank because of feeding. When I turned away, he decided to carpet surf....and my cat pounced it. Frankly, I was surprised my cat didn't get it bad. It died a quick death.
So moral of the story for me is once eels get a taste of something living....that's all she wrote.
It's sad I lost mine but at the end of the day it was a good lesson learned.
My advice:
Don't get an eel if you want snails, shrimp, or other inverts.
Don't even think about putting it with fish. I know this ones debatable, and people have had success but it's a no from me :/
I had** a small 6 inch snowflake eel in the tank. I figured he wouldn't try for anything much larger than him but I was wrong....he chomped on the pistol shrimp in nearly one bite. There one minute, gone the next.
Fast forward to today, and I'm feeding the rest of my fish in the tank. The eel tries to take a chunk out of my melanurus wrasse. The eel was fed first because I read it helps to avoid situations like that. Apparently not. The wrasse is nearly 4 inches long and probably 2 in circumference.
I had the lid off of the tank because of feeding. When I turned away, he decided to carpet surf....and my cat pounced it. Frankly, I was surprised my cat didn't get it bad. It died a quick death.
So moral of the story for me is once eels get a taste of something living....that's all she wrote.
It's sad I lost mine but at the end of the day it was a good lesson learned.
My advice:
Don't get an eel if you want snails, shrimp, or other inverts.
Don't even think about putting it with fish. I know this ones debatable, and people have had success but it's a no from me :/
