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I have a blue ribbon eel that I've hat for a week and I've tried feeding all kinda of frozen food plus live foods.
Any suggestions?
Any suggestions?
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I have tried gold fish and guppies. Will be trying rosy red minnows soon. Did he have any luck with the ghost shrimp? Also which are the baitfish? Never heard of themWhat live foods have you tried? My friend has a couple for a few years already. He throws in a bunch of ghost shrimp and baitfish every month or so and the eels eat it at their leisure.
Firefish could get pretty pricy. Any other suggestions?A coworker of mine buys firefish. He buys about a dozen at a time. They last about a month.
I have tried gold fish and guppies. Will be trying rosy red minnows soon. Did he have any luck with the ghost shrimp? Also which are the baitfish? Never heard of them
This wouldn't be his full diet but have been using them just to try to get him feeding. As lots of threads that have had success have started with freshwater fish and helped convert to frozen food.Freshwater fish aren't part of their diet. Even if they start feeding on them they don't contain the nutrients the eel needs.
I have tried gold fish and guppies. Will be trying rosy red minnows soon. Did he have any luck with the ghost shrimp? Also which are the baitfish? Never heard of them
I have tried silversides and used some dead feeders. I also use the tongs. Would you recommend ghost shrimp?Baitfish is just a general term for small fish people use for fishing. Silversides, mummichogs and banded killie fish are some. I live near the ocean so I just grab them myself and give him some. I also feed them to my fish. You might be able to get it at a fishing place if you live close enough to thr ocean or online. It eats both fish and ghost shrimp.
Freshwater fish isn't the best for the eel it is better then it starving. Try feeding with tongs and that will make it eaiser to transition it to frozen.
I never ordered from here but they have saltwater feeders.
http://www.mariculturetechnology.com/baitfish.htm
Ghost shrimp will be fine. The important thing is to getting it to eat. After that you can wean it to whatever food you want.
I mean live silversides and bait fish. What size is your tank. Add 5-10 feeders and over time they should start to disappear. Make sure you have good hiding spots for the eel to make it feel comfortable.
Which saltwater feeder shrimp are you talking about?Beautiful. I would recommend getting saltwater feeder shrimp and just adding them so he can hunt naturally at first. I would add them when the trigger is least active. Lights out I believe for them. Let him settle into the normal routine of captive life before attempting to tong train him.
Do you order off that site?These are a good one
http://www.livebrineshrimp.com/ShrimpJanitor.htm
How do you order from there. It doesn't have any options. Do you know if they ship to canada and how long it would take. Have u had experiences with the ribbon eel?Not recently. I haven't had a predator tank in years. I had no problems with them when I did though.