I purchased my Gymnothorax polyuranodon about 3 months ago and until this day, i havnt seen it eat! I bought some guppies and ghost shrimp, and after being in the tank for 3 months, they are all still there! I tried frozen blood worms, frozen brine shrimp, pieces of real shrimp, dried shrimp and nothing! I have never seen him eat! Hes alive so i guess he must be eating something! My question is, How can i get him to eat these foods? I have heard that creating a different water level helps, but what does that mean and how do i do it? please help me on this one! Anyone!!! Thanks!
freshwater snowflake eel
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tashanbrown
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hello
i am haveing the same problem that you are.
i brought a freshwater moray eel and i can't get it to eat at the shop they told me to try earthworms wash them and then put them into the aquarium at night no other fish will find them when i tried it the next morning i woke up and there where none left in the tank so he must of eaten it.
try if this will help and keep my posted
anything else please don't hesitate to contact me .
i am haveing the same problem that you are.
i brought a freshwater moray eel and i can't get it to eat at the shop they told me to try earthworms wash them and then put them into the aquarium at night no other fish will find them when i tried it the next morning i woke up and there where none left in the tank so he must of eaten it.
try if this will help and keep my posted
anything else please don't hesitate to contact me .
I would bet any money that the reason your eels aren't eating is because they are unwell due to them actually not being freshwater eels at all. There is no such thing as a freshwater moray eel, whatever your fish store may tell you.
All morays are either brackish, or more commonly, marine creatures. One of the fisrt signs of an eel being kept at the wrong level of salt is refusal to eat.
So harsh as it sounds, you have three choices.
And by the way, earthworms bury themselves in the sunstrate and eventually drown, so it's still no certainty that your eel ate them.
Add salt before they starve to death!
/edit - I see you've also asked about your eel in the brackish forum, so do you have it in fresh or brackish water?
All morays are either brackish, or more commonly, marine creatures. One of the fisrt signs of an eel being kept at the wrong level of salt is refusal to eat.
So harsh as it sounds, you have three choices.
- Take them back to the store (where they will die)
- Keep them as they are (where they will die)
- Change your tank to brackish water. (where, if you're not too late, they will start eating and live comfortably for many many years.
And by the way, earthworms bury themselves in the sunstrate and eventually drown, so it's still no certainty that your eel ate them.
Add salt before they starve to death!
/edit - I see you've also asked about your eel in the brackish forum, so do you have it in fresh or brackish water?
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