New green moray acting funny.

speedjester · Jul 15, 2023

Woke up this morning to my newly acquired Green moray laying upside down in his tube. He was active all night. Don’t know if they sleep like that or if he’s sick.

Thoughts?

exnisstech · Jul 15, 2023

I'm not familiar with green moray but a Google search has some reports of this being normal even in wild ones.

speedjester · Jul 15, 2023

exnisstech said:
I'm not familiar with green moray but a Google search has some reports of this being normal even in wild ones.

I must be doing something wrong with google. I tried to find anything about it I got 0. Lol. I just get freshwater eels sleep upside down. No mention of morays.

I guess it can’t be to bad. Decided to see if he would eat and dangled a full 8” octopus in front of him. He snatched it up and backed into his pipe.

Tcook · Jul 15, 2023

These guys can help @Slocke @lion king

Slocke · Jul 15, 2023

I would not worry. Eels do that in PVC. My snake eels are usually upside down in their pipes so if thats the only symptom it should be good.

lion king · Jul 15, 2023

Yeah I wouldn't worry right off the bat, they will do that, my tessa lays his head like that in his tube.

Maybe he needs a pillow, hahaha.

speedjester · Jul 15, 2023

lion king said:
Yeah I wouldn't worry right off the bat, they will do that, my tessa lays his head like that in his tube.

Maybe he needs a pillow, hahaha.

My other concern is I really didn’t think he was going to eat. So without thinking I placed a whole octopus (8”-9”) in the hole and he snatched it and backed down the pipe. He came back out 5 minutes later. But now I’m worried if he ate it or not. That’s a big octopus to just let rot in the tube. Serious ammonia spike. What are the chances he took it and dropped it in the tube.

exnisstech · Jul 15, 2023

Just curious how big this one is? One of my lfs has one that is probably 6 ft long or more and and bigger around than my arm. It's really interesting and named mr grinch. It's for sale but I don't know how a person would go about moving it.

lion king · Jul 15, 2023

speedjester said:
My other concern is I really didn’t think he was going to eat. So without thinking I placed a whole octopus (8”-9”) in the hole and he snatched it and backed down the pipe. He came back out 5 minutes later. But now I’m worried if he ate it or not. That’s a big octopus to just let rot in the tube. Serious ammonia spike. What are the chances he took it and dropped it in the tube.

Yeah could happen, you could run a tube into pvc and pump water through to flush it out, like a closed loop. Is he cruising through the pvc from one end to the other, if so it is more likely he ate it, or it would end up pushed through. That's one thing I hate about pvc, I usually don't use them, in my case now I am because tessa's can collapse rock work and I'm using it as support.

speedjester · Jul 15, 2023

exnisstech said:
Just curious how big this one is? One of my lfs has one that is probably 6 ft long or more and and bigger around than my arm. It's really interesting and named mr grinch. It's for sale but I don't know how a person would go about moving it.

It’s tough to gauge. But around 52”. Hrs pretty thick. It was a fiasco moving him. There simple to guide when small but when they get bigger a bite is always on your mind. The shop owner used a clear bag on a net frame. Once his head went in they gathered him up.