Garden Eel.

[JohnnyMantis]

What is the best diet for a Garden Eel?

 

[FMarini]

feed primarily meaty foods, like planktons, mysids, etc.
I have a single garden eel in my tank, it took about 1 week to switch over from live to dead foods. but now its eats everything that passes by. Be aware tha it will take a while for the eel to feel comfortable in your tank, actually come out and "act" like a garden eel.

 

[JohnnyMantis]

What specificaly have you fed it?

 

[SDguy]

And how deep is your sandbed?

 

[FMarini]

as i mentioned above-plankton. you can buy frozen plankton, i use this. I also use frozen mysis shrimp (PE mysis) as well as Sallys and Hikari frozen mysis. Also live and frozen brine sjrimp, shavied gulf shrimp chucnks, as I mentioned it pulls pretty much anything from the water column , samples it, then either swallows or spits it out.
AS for sand bed depth, i guess around 4-6". While the books say 1 ft or more, the eels move sideways like eels thru the sandbed. I've been to a few public aquariums that have kept the eels in shallow tanks and they appear to do fine. My eels specifically is in a section of 4", he darts in-an-out w/ no problem

 

[JohnnyMantis]

Thanks for the specifics on feeding. My bed is 4-5" in spots, my Bar Banded Goby has moved quite a bit of sand around.