Am I the only one amazed that he can balance himself on top of the step ladder like that?
Eels and Reef aquatica..
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Am I the only one amazed that he can balance himself on top of the step ladder like that?
Mangodude
The Clown Tang Keeper!
Yes, they will get around 2ft if I remeber correctly. Could be easily housed in a 180g. Never had any problem with him knocking stuff over.. perhaps when they are larger though.
To me it is a wonder more people don't keep eels! Even if you wanted a larger more aggressive eel you could still keep one in a reef tank. Provided when you say "reef" you mean "coral" tank. Eels don't eat corals. I dont' see why you couldn't keep the two together..
I have had my Zebra eel for about 5yrs now in my reef tank. Very calm eel and doesnt bother anything. He is about 4ft long and about 3-4inches thick. I pet him all the time. Only comes out at feeding. I feed him once a week about 11-12 mussels. I also have in my tank which is a 125g a yellow, salfin, naso and powder brown tang, clown, coral beauty, 2 damsel, carpenter wrasse, long nose hawk fish, 2 manderins and 2 engineer gobies. Dersa clams and many different corals.
You can definitely train eels. I've been scuba diving in several places where the divemasters had eels trained, mostly to eat out their hands. They name them and everything. I have no idea what is involved in doing that though as my tank is way too small for an eel. But I'd love to have one.
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As it was pointed out, those are White Tip reef sharks. The tank was a 240G but was upgraded to a 480G shortly after I got into the sharks. The tank was really undersized for anything over 18" and in truth was undersized for even these juveniles. The 240 was OK for a short time though. One thing about the white tip reef sharks that I found is that they are very lazy fish when well fed. The tend to laze around on the bottom more than they swim. When I first got them, they were just over 12". They grow fast at over 12" a year.
I was importing White Tip sharks for a while and some of the people that I was selling them to wanted them larger so I grew them and moved them. The Mirage in Vegas was the ultimate home for the sharks in that picture. They paid a pretty penny for them. They required them to be at least 3' long. I had them for close to 3 years before they were shipped off to vegas. For years after that, I would go to vegas and could tell them apart from the other sharks there just by the markings on the sides of the sharks. Each one has unique spots or splotches.
I also had a large kiddy pool in the garage for the ones that I had for short term as well as lemon sharks that I was messing with. Sharks are cool fish but I don't think I would do it again. I got sick and tired of all the feeding and grocery store runs for the raw fish. Not to mention that they grow really fast and without the right connections, they are very had to find appropriate homes for once they outgrow a system.
That said, out of all the fish I have had over the years, that green morray eel is and will always be one of my favorites! I truley miss that eel. He was my buddy and I was his as stupid as that might sound. Like the sharks though, large morray eels are a pain and they eat alot and crap alot which makes for a lot of work so as much I love eels, I dont think I would do large morrays again. Now a hawaiian dragon eel would be another story.
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I have had my zebra moray for 2 years in a reef. He is about 30" long and the most docile creature in my tank. He doesn't eat any of the fish. Like most have said the problem with eels is A. they eat a lot and crap alot. B. They are clumsy, they are virtually blind and can knock over coral and rocks easily. C. most can grow to be very large and pretty quickly
Thats what i meant. Lol. I feel retarded because they obviously have white tips.
