Indian mud eel spots???

[saltybench]

My Indian mud eel has these white spots randomly on it now??? They weren’t there earlier today but i just noticed them. Could it have been stung by an anemone? It’s acting normal and it ate earlier but I’m not sure what’s going on.

 

[Jay Hemdal Verified Community Expert]

My Indian mud eel has these white spots randomly on it now??? They weren’t there earlier today but i just noticed them. Could it have been stung by an anemone? It’s acting normal and it ate earlier but I’m not sure what’s going on.

Hi,

Ive never heard of an Indian mud eel, do you know the scientific name?
Can you post a picture?

Jay

 

[saltybench]

Hi,

Ive never heard of an Indian mud eel, do you know the scientific name?
Can you post a picture?

Jay

I thought i posted a picture, it what the lfs stores usually call a freshwater snowflake eel.

 

[saltybench]

I thought i posted a picture, it what the lfs stores usually call a freshwater snowflake eel.

Gymnothorax tile is the scientific name

 

[N.Sreefer]

What salinity are you keeping it in?

 

[saltybench]

What salinity are you keeping it in?

I acclimated it over the course of like a month or two up to 1.025 spcific gravity (sorry that’s the only measure i have) it’s been fine (grown even since i got it from a not so good situation) for the last six months.

 

[Jay Hemdal Verified Community Expert]

Gymnothorax tile is the scientific name

Yep - I know that fish, just not by that common name. As you know, they can’t live in FW long term, but are fine in brackish or marine tanks.
That said, the blanched spots aren’t any disease I’m familiar with. Are they on both sides of the fish? Do they run down its whole body?
Jay