Gymnothorax pseudoherrei, False Briwn Eel
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Have you seen one available, the lack of info suggest they are not kept in captivity often. Sometimes this points to difficulty due to being disease prone or difficulty in feeding, with an eel it's likely due to difficulty in feeding. It appears to be a small fang tooth, so special considerations would need to be followed if kept with fish. Not knowing much about this eel you wouldn't know it's true level of aggression. The pic you posted is highly filtered so I would search for more realistic photos if you aren't looking at them in person.
? Thats larger than the eel in question, and the banana eel is also a fang tooth. I'm not sure what you are stating.
Did you mean you have a banana eel in your reef. How long have they been there, and 18" isn't fully mature. A banana eel will eventually eat all but large and at semi aggressive fish.
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Wtyson254
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I have had him/her since Sept 2021. I was saying that the predation fear is probably not an issue, I do not know the size of the specimen in question, so the possibility that my current eel would eat it is possible. He/she is housed with:
- Mature flame angel
- 4 mature/semi-mature spotcinctus clownfish
- 5” tomini tang
- 6” fox face
- 5” regal tang
- Mature 5” long nose hawkfish
Here’s what I’ve been able to find on these guys:
- Fang tooth
- Shallow (1-15m, typically not deeper than 10m), coastal, coral reef dweller
- Distribution may be wider or narrower depending on what source you believe, but it is known for certain to be in the Red Sea and the Arabian Gulf to the Solomon Islands.
- Assuming DNA testing won’t confirm the existence of two species currently known under this name, the full size of these specimens ranges from ~180mm to ~290mm (Red Sea area specimens being larger than those of the Pacific Ocean), and may or may not have “dark throat grooves” (Red Sea area specimens do, Pacific Ocean specimens do not).
- These guys are likely rare in the hobby because they are extremely cryptic and - as far as I can tell - there was never (until recently) a confirmed live specimen found; all specimens previously found were apparently deceased. The confirmed specimen I’m aware of was set to be auctioned off by St. Pete Saltwater Aquarium Store, who sent for DNA testing to the Smithsonian, and the results came back in May of this year. I’ve seen some other places claiming to sell them, and it’s possible that they are, but I would assume (based on how rare these apparently are) that it’s a misidentified specimen in most cases, as there are a number of more commonly found species that look remarkably similar (such as Gymnothorax herrei, for example).
Edit: forgot to list sources.
bie.ala.org.au
- Fang tooth
- Shallow (1-15m, typically not deeper than 10m), coastal, coral reef dweller
- Distribution may be wider or narrower depending on what source you believe, but it is known for certain to be in the Red Sea and the Arabian Gulf to the Solomon Islands.
- Assuming DNA testing won’t confirm the existence of two species currently known under this name, the full size of these specimens ranges from ~180mm to ~290mm (Red Sea area specimens being larger than those of the Pacific Ocean), and may or may not have “dark throat grooves” (Red Sea area specimens do, Pacific Ocean specimens do not).
- These guys are likely rare in the hobby because they are extremely cryptic and - as far as I can tell - there was never (until recently) a confirmed live specimen found; all specimens previously found were apparently deceased. The confirmed specimen I’m aware of was set to be auctioned off by St. Pete Saltwater Aquarium Store, who sent for DNA testing to the Smithsonian, and the results came back in May of this year. I’ve seen some other places claiming to sell them, and it’s possible that they are, but I would assume (based on how rare these apparently are) that it’s a misidentified specimen in most cases, as there are a number of more commonly found species that look remarkably similar (such as Gymnothorax herrei, for example).
Edit: forgot to list sources.
Species: Gymnothorax pseudoherrei (False Brown Moray)
Atlas of Living Australia species page for the Gymnothorax pseudoherrei
bie.ala.org.au
jimmyeatsfish
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Here was an article about it, although me and the Smithsonian had a miscommunication. They cleared up that this is a true gymnothorax psuedoherri, while the DNA they had on file was a related species that they have now classified as a different species that inhabits the Suez Canal. Mine was from Sri Lanka and is the same species as the Australian one seen in the video.
reefs.com
Unknown Species of Dwarf Moray Eel?
An unidentified species of dwarf moray eel found? James Dandar, of St Pete Saltwater Aquarium Store LLC, recently communicated this to Richard Back of Afishiona
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