Show off your EELS!

[Esox]

My morays today:

They look good! Love how the white-eyed morays always look like they're smiling.

 

[littlefoxx]

They look good! Love how the white-eyed morays always look like they're smiling.

he is such a goofy eel! He loves scratches too!

 

[Esox]

I had an undulated moray that loved hand contact. Not for scratches, but for something to sink his teeth in.

Wish I had a tank big enough to keep some of the bigger beasts like yours. I never get tired of watching 'em.

 

[littlefoxx]

I had an undulated moray that loved hand contact. Not for scratches, but for something to sink his teeth in.

Wish I had a tank big enough to keep some of the bigger beasts like yours. I never get tired of watching 'em.

Thats a cool eel!!! And all mine are 2 feet besides the zebra, shes over 3 feet probably approaching 4 now. Still looking for one more moray to add to the eel gang! I love my morays, they are the highlight of my tank!

 

[Esox]

I had an undulated moray that loved hand contact. Not for scratches, but for something to sink his teeth in.

Wish I had a tank big enough to keep some of the bigger beasts like yours. I never get tired of watching 'em.

Thats a cool eel!!! And all mine are 2 feet besides the zebra, shes over 3 feet probably approaching 4 now. Still looking for one more moray to add to the eel gang! I love my morays, they are the highlight of my tank!

I don't doubt it. What size is your tank?

 

[littlefoxx]

I don't doubt it. What size is your tank?

300 gallon display!

 

[jasonrusso]

Here's my 1st "chestnut" moray. When I got him in November, he was the expected brown color, but he's been gradually turning yellow. He shows no behaviors indicating distress and eats well. It's rare to see him come completely out of a cave, and he usually waits until food is an inch away from his face before grabbing it. It will also occasionally take food away from the other chestnut.

My other chestnut moray has stayed brown, is roughly the same length, and actively roams the tank. It'll chase food aggressively. However it hasn't' added the girth that the first one has since I got them. I still suspect the lighter one may be a viper moray, so watching the ongoing changes between the two has been interesting but frustratingly slow.

I've read that salmon can make them color up.

 

[Esox]

I've read that salmon can make them color up.

That's good to know. I can't find salmon, however, that doesn't have artificial color added to it. I've been leery of feeding anything with additives.

 

[jasonrusso]

That's good to know. I can't find salmon, however, that doesn't have artificial color added to it. I've been leery of feeding anything with additives.

Really? You don't have a fish counter that has wild caught salmon?

 

[Esox]

That's good to know. I can't find salmon, however, that doesn't have artificial color added to it. I've been leery of feeding anything with additives.

Really? You don't have a fish counter that has wild caught salmon?

The local selections are limited. I did find another store this past Sunday with a better selection, but even their wild-caught salmon had color added.

I've been feeding San Francisco Bay brand silversides, ez peel shrimp, scallops, and live mollies. The eel that is for certain a chestnut only eats fish (frozen and live) and live shrimp. The yellow fellow eats everything but live shrimp. I'm going try stuffing some vitamin-soaked pellets into the silversides next feeding, but I half expect that to be an exercise in futility. Getting ready to set up a planted freshwater tank, and I figure I'll just let mollies populate that so I can gutload them with marine vitamins and foods to fortify the eel diet.

 

[Thomashtom]

More eels and Mimic! Thanks for looking.

 

[Thomashtom]

Thanks

 

[Thomashtom]

New pics! Thanks for looking!

 

[Thomashtom]

Thanks

 

[DylanE]

The local selections are limited. I did find another store this past Sunday with a better selection, but even their wild-caught salmon had color added.

I've been feeding San Francisco Bay brand silversides, ez peel shrimp, scallops, and live mollies. The eel that is for certain a chestnut only eats fish (frozen and live) and live shrimp. The yellow fellow eats everything but live shrimp. I'm going try stuffing some vitamin-soaked pellets into the silversides next feeding, but I half expect that to be an exercise in futility. Getting ready to set up a planted freshwater tank, and I figure I'll just let mollies populate that so I can gutload them with marine vitamins and foods to fortify the eel diet.

That sounds like a great diet. If you do want to go the salmon route, I use Sitka salmon shares. I live in the rural mountains so also no local shops with good wild caught, Sitka delivers high quality wild caught seafood frozen with dry ice. We use it for our own seafood, so it’s easy enough to add on a few extra salon chunks a month. My Japanese dragon has really excellent color, although who knows if it’s the salmon or not.

 

[Esox]

The local selections are limited. I did find another store this past Sunday with a better selection, but even their wild-caught salmon had color added.

I've been feeding San Francisco Bay brand silversides, ez peel shrimp, scallops, and live mollies. The eel that is for certain a chestnut only eats fish (frozen and live) and live shrimp. The yellow fellow eats everything but live shrimp. I'm going try stuffing some vitamin-soaked pellets into the silversides next feeding, but I half expect that to be an exercise in futility. Getting ready to set up a planted freshwater tank, and I figure I'll just let mollies populate that so I can gutload them with marine vitamins and foods to fortify the eel diet.

That sounds like a great diet. If you do want to go the salmon route, I use Sitka salmon shares. I live in the rural mountains so also no local shops with good wild caught, Sitka delivers high quality wild caught seafood frozen with dry ice. We use it for our own seafood, so it’s easy enough to add on a few extra salon chunks a month. My Japanese dragon has really excellent color, although who knows if it’s the salmon or not.

That's good to know. Thanks for the tip!

If the one eel turns out to be a viper, I may need to start ordering salmon from time to time. At this point, he's still so small that I need to cut up the silversides for him. I've since found two places nearby with fresh seafood selections, but all their salmonids so far have color added. I don't want to feed unknown chemicals to my slithering kiddos.

 

[Esox]

My chestnut morays letting me know they're ready for a snack.

 

[Thomashtom]

My chestnut morays letting me know they're ready for a snack.

Not working

 

[Esox]

The video?

 

[littlefoxx]

My slippery noodles saying hi

Mom yesterday when she saw them: EW they are so creepy! They mush have heard her cause they then came out to say hi mom did not appreciate it at all