Snowflake Eel Info??

[Organized Chaos]

I have a snowflake eel and haven't been able to get much info on him. I am pretty sure it is a gymnothorax tile ( maybe polyuranodon).

Some questions:
Last night he looked very sluggish and his head was flopped over. He looked very stressed. Since then I added some salt to the tank to make it slightly brackish and he seemed to liven up a little. Is this normal? What should I do?

Also what do they eat? I added 12 feeded guppies the first week and the next mroning there were only 4 left. I have heard feeder guppies are not the best food? Why?
How about blood worms? any other options?

Does anyone else have any other info about them? Anything would be helpful.

Thanks

 

[Alien Anna]

I answered this question (indirectly) in another section - I suspect your tank is not cycled and you've got ammonia and nitrite upsetting your eel. Come back to us with any questions once you've read my article.

 

[Organized Chaos]

I ran some tests, the results are in this thread:

http/fish.orbust.net/forums/index.php?sh...showtopic=11649