Need Help with Banana Eel

[EliMelly]

Hello,

Is this a golden dwarf moray or a banana. Can anyone please confirm which it is?

If it’s a Banana will it be safe with my fish? I currently have a banded snake eel, Diamond goby that is 3-4”, 11 Anthias, 2 clowns, leopard wrasse, earmuff wrasse, Royal gramma, starry Blenny, Midas Blenny, Copperband, moorish idol, some tangs, and a couple different angelfish…

 

[littlefoxx]

Banana eel Gymnothorax miliaris

Gymno is a fang tooth so it could fish thar fit in its mouth

 

[littlefoxx]

I have 2 fang tooth eels and only had one eat 2 fish, a blenny and a wrasse. (That I know of)

 

[littlefoxx]

But looking at your list quite a few of those fish can 100% be tempting for a gymno to eat!

 

[littlefoxx]

Ivar my dragon eel would 100% eat most of those fish. He is the one who ate my wrasse and blenny.

 

[static416]

My banana eel generally ignores the fish because I keep it very well fed. The tangs and rabbitfish actually try to smack it in the face with their tails, and it just ignores them.

In my experience the most dangerous time is actually when you feed the eel. Once it realizes there is food coming, it gets much more aggressive.

In one case, a maroon clown got between the food and the eel, and the eel kind of grabbed it by accident, but then immediately yanked it under a rock.

I was mostly concerned for the eel, because the clown was bigger than I thought it could swallow. But it seemed to be able to handle it.

So TLDR, I haven't had problems as long as I keep it fed. But it's a fish-eating eel, so it will do as it feels like.

Can see the clown and eel together here, week or two before the clown got grabbed during feeding.

 

[static416]

I'll just quickly add, "keeping it well fed", generally is against the feeding guidance for these animals.

I should really be waiting until it gets more hungry, up to a week between feedings. But it will basically start hunting tankmates at that point.

So I feed about once every 3 days or so, anytime the eel starts to get more active.

 

[littlefoxx]

I'll just quickly add, "keeping it well fed", generally is against the feeding guidance for these animals.

I should really be waiting until it gets more hungry, up to a week between feedings. But it will basically start hunting tankmates at that point.

So I feed about once every 3 days or so, anytime the eel starts to get more active.

Yeah mine come out when they are hungry and I feed them then. Usually every 3-4 days. Beautiful eel!

 

[Should I]

its a Gymnothorax miliaris that has not got the rare morph we call banana

this is the banana morph see how it differs from yours