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Any eel experts out there?

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melev
, 03-24-2013 at 03:55 PM (7336 Views)
Lately, I've really thought my reef needs a beautiful eel. Something I can trust to be a nice reef-safe addition that won't devour my other reeflings. What's a good candidate? I do have a couple of options as to the habitat. It could live in the 400g with everything, or I could put it in the 60g with the anemones and clownfish. I find them to be so interesting and beautiful, but have never felt I could trust it to leave small fish and shrimps alone. What's the real verdict?

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  1. Midnight's Avatar
    He's very cute, buy him
  2. melev's Avatar
    I'm going to need a little more than that to pull the trigger.
  3. gr8t1dini's Avatar
    Won't he go after the clown? I guess you could feed him raw shrimp. How big does it get?
  4. Heathd's Avatar
    I want a snowflake as well, but my understanding has always been that your clean up crew will slowly disappear. This isn't first hand knowledge though, so it could be wrong.
  5. melev's Avatar
    So what are the other eels of choice? The Golden Dwarf Moray and the Zebra Moray are two I know of. What's the story with those?
  6. Articfox32's Avatar
    I had a snow flake eel a few years ago in my 90 gallon. He woul eat out of my hand. At the time I purchased him I had a good 60-70 hermit crabs and 5-6 emarald crabs. Everyday I started seeing less and less o the crabs. Took about a month before they were all gone. I did some reading and learned that they eat crabs. I ended up pulling it out the tank and donating him back to the pet store I purchased it from. That's my only experience I have had with eels
  7. Navanax's Avatar
    Zebra morays attain rather large sizes, and eels in general are escape artists. its a huge risk to keep one in an open top tank. your best options, if you choose to buy an eel, would be Golden Dwarf Morays or a Ribbon eel (which are very hard to care for). however, you will lose a couple fish and some of your cleanup crew, and you may find your new specimen on the floor.
  8. melev's Avatar
    Sounds like I need to curtail my desire and skip this addition.