Grouper eat eel?

[osufarker]

Will a grouper eat an eel?

The grouper is a 9" polleni the eel is a 12" snowflake eel.

I just put the polleni in the tank and i'm not sure if he would go for the eel or not. Anyone have an opinion?

 

[Absint Reefer]

I'd say it would be a 50/50 chance a polleni grouper is'nt very aggressive as some other groupers and hopefully you have plenty of rockwork where the eel can hide.

 

[syndrome]

I wouldnt think that the eel would get eaten.

 

[chasekwe]

I imagine if the grouped made an attempt he'd spit it back out anyways. That's an awful lot of eel in relation to his body size.

 

[flyingace2005]

Lets see some pics of the Polleni!! Where did you get it?

 

[stevebydac]

It's certainly possibly for the grouper to eat the snowflake. A 12" snowflake is not a big fish, while a 9" grouper is larger. Cross your fingers on this one. Depends how hungry the grouper is.

I would fatten up that eel so that he grows at a quicker pace than the grouper.

 

[marrone]

If the eel is small enough the grouper will try and eat him. Once he determines he can't he'll leave him alone, this goes for all fish kept with Groupers.

 

[Sparg93]

Wow, isn't that a $200 eel is that grouper's mouth. I can't remember the name of the eel, but i've seen them before and they're pretty expensive.

Great pic though!

 

[marrone]

It's a Tessalata Eel vs a Bumble Bee grouper. Both get pretty large and I'm suprised that the Tessalata Eel couldn't either get away or cause damage to the Bumble bee grouper as the grouper isn't that large unless there was some thing wrong with the eel to begain with.

 

[Sparg93]

yup, that's the name i couldn't remember... they have a show size one for $400 at my LFS..... kinda feel bad for the big guy being picked out of the ocean and put in a holding tank.

 

[pitt_prodigy]

Im really surprised that tessy didnt put up a fight. They can get downright shag nasty when provoked. As stated above that eel may have been sick or on it way out otherwise. Interesting pick though.

 

[Sparg93]

http://community.webshots.com/photo/274562539/1274567625065791324rgBbsm#

Look in the background of this photo....i think this Grouper had it out for this guy

 

[Sparg93]

That sucks, that Tess was gorgeous.... huge grouper too!!

 

[osufarker]

So far, so good. The snowflake is small so the grouper couldn't definately take him down, but he has ignored him thus far.

The polleni is rather larger, but he also is the calmest grouper I have ever seen. Definately doesn't act like a typical grouper. I have a blue spotted grouper in another tank that is half the size, but 3 times as aggressive.