Advice For Feeding Tiretrack Eel

[saulat]

I made the mistake of buying something based on what the fish store told me. I like the fish a lot but am worried about feeding. I bought the tire track eel yesterday. I was told shrimp pellets would be fine. I have so many bottom feeders that I am worried about him feeding especially since he feeds at night. I also have flake food, frozen brine shrimp, and flake food, oh and algae wafers. It is a bit of a feeding frenzy when I give food and I try not to overfeed. I have a 55 gallon planted freshwater tank. I have around 6 corydora, 4 hatchetfish, 2 clown loach, 6 swordtail and 1 fry, 7 siamese algae eaters, 2 rainbow sharks, and some ghost and whisker shrimp (if the ghost shrimp survived the whisker shrimp). I am sure I over stocked or at least put too much variation in. This is my second tank, first real tank. I am looking for help with one or two questions...

What should I feed the eel as in what would be easiest to purchase? The only live food I have seen in Cincinnati is at one store which has blackworms. Can this colonize my aquarium?

The eel is small maybe 5 inches or so, is there a type of feeder I could keep in my tank or will the eel overeat? Are feeder fish too big for such a small eel? I'd like to avoid having live things in the containers around the house due to kids, wife, dog, ect. Will feeder fish pollute my tank?

Other thank feeder fish any suggestions on making sure the eel gets his share without overfeeding?

Thanks for any insight.

If interested I use some fertilizer, have 4 28watt T5 bulbs, and about 14 species of plants. It has been set up about 2 months. Kh is about 60ppm, Gh is about hard maybe 250ppm, Nitrates low, nitrites and ammonia zero, Ph about 7.4. I think the eels get fairly large but take years to do so, if that happens I'll get a bigger tank

 

[always4lora]

tire track eel will grow to big for the aquarium. See the following link ... [URL="http/www.fishforums.net/index.php?showtopic=216166"]http/www.fishforums.net/index.php?showtopic=216166[/URL] You're looking at more than double the size of your tank . Get a half banded spiny eel or similar , they dont grow to big for your tank.
Least it saves you wory about what toi feed it. Take it back and see if they can give you some credit for it .


taken from the link :

Being predators and because of the huge adult size of the Tire Track Eel, they should only be combined with other fish that the eel will not consider as food and would not be eaten. Tankmates have to be large and robust.

Feeding: Live foods such as bloodworms, brineshrimp, mosquito larvae and small crusteaceans. Prepared tablet foods as well as krill and ocean plankton may eventually be accepted.

 

[simonas]

very large eel a tyre track

I have one that I;m struggling to get feeding on anything but frozen bloodworm although he did eat 8 neons overnight when I moved him overnigt temporarily in a tank that had neons!!! I thought they'd be too big!!!

try earthworms and prawns as well but ultimately he will be too large for your tank

 

[Amazon ruler]

Well....I did kept one tire track eel in a 310 gallon tank once,and it was swimming to the apper levels of the tank trying to catch a zebra danio,but he kept on failing but he catched a male guppy quit easily by hiding and waiting for it's victim.try feeding him blood worms, small meal worms or a small feeder fish.