Ok... What a freakin week it has been!. I got the 135 gallon setup, on a stand I just built and stained... I emptied the 90 gallon tank and transfered all the fish into the 135...I rebuilt the 90 gallon and started to re-arrange my living room (I have to replace the carpet following the massive leak in the 135).
So here is the view of my fish room when you first walk in. There will be more tanks in here shortly... but this is how its progressing.
Looking right you can see some of the plants I am starting to fill this room with. There is enough ambient light fromteh fish tanks that I can grow almost anything in this room. The plants also help keep the humidity down, I rarely have to water them.
Here is the 90 Gallon tank. This tank is 3 feet wide, 2 feet tall, and 2 feet deep. It is currently lit with 7, 3 foot NO T8's (5000k 98CRI bulbs). Filtration is just a simple Aquaclear 300. I may supplement this with another 300 later, but for the time being this tank will only house a pair of Kribs untill the fire eel moves in.
In the first pic the eel was very faded and stressed out, and sitting directly under a light so he had a pinkish hue to him. This pic shows his more natural colour.
Spiny eels have a very specific dietary requirement. Frozen and live foods only. THey arent cheap to feed. On top of that you need to have teh space to house them... The Fire eels can reach up to 39" at full size.. the Tire Track Eel should top out at a maximum of 30".
I don't think that these would be good community fish as they are easily pestered... I don't have any idea of what their temperment will be at a larger size either...
They seem to get along just fine.. they curl up together.. they share food.. although I do hand heed the Fire eel before I just drop in a bunch of blood worm.. I want to make sure that the smaller guy is getting his share as well.
Heh... they don't exactly "pose" I have taken over 300 pictures of them so far just to get the few shots I have on this thread I'm glad I bought a tripod.. lol
Agreed, I thought the same thing. That feeding photo really gives a great idea about the size of the fire eel. I'm not real familiar with fire eels, but I know a bunch of other divers that have been bitten by eels that they used to feed daily on the reefs. When I was going all over the carribean diving it didn't seem like it mattered where I went there was always a diver with bandaged fingers. Everytime I would ask them what happened, same story.. "We've been feeding a few eels on this one reef to keep them there so we can show our divers. We've been feeding them for months with no problem and then one day they just snapped out and bite us." Most of these were morays though I believe, but I would definately be careful with my fingers there gareth, would stink having to aquascape with bandaged fingers..
She will grow to about 39" long if I'm lucky. I've seen them about 24" long and 3" thick for sale.. right now shes about 13" long and just over an inch thick at her fattest
These guys aren't "true" eels like the morrays. If I had a Morray (fresh or salt) I wouldnt even think of hand feeding them. They have sharp little teeth that can seriously injure you These guys are pretty mellow
Here is the eel tank as of tonight. I fianlly set it up with a black backround and got rid of the blue. This look makes the eels more ocmfortable and is easier for taking pictures.
Lookin good Gareth... I didnt realize they got that big :shock: The largest one I have ever seen was only maybe 14 inches or so and sold for 95 bucks !
How about a bunch of small moss covered stone's in there, they would be great for the water quality and probably well liked by the smooth bellied eels
How is your substrate layered beneath the sand? Do you have to stir the sand every now and then for aeration? Just wondering because I'm considering a sand bottom but want it heavily planted.
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