Looking for a Skeletor Eel
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Thank you for the help, will post some pics later. Just put one up to try. Off to work
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Ours has started being a bit more brave, hanging outside of his rock a lot more now. Still haven't seen him swim around lol
He could also care less for silversides... just seems to like shrimp... wasted bag of silversides from the LFS >:0
Ours has started being a bit more brave, hanging outside of his rock a lot more now. Still haven't seen him swim around lol
He could also care less for silversides... just seems to like shrimp... wasted bag of silversides from the LFS >:0
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Yeah might need to get some crab to change up his diet. Any idea what type of crab to feed him? I've been using frozen gulf shrimp chunks so far.
He def. seems to be wanting more food now. I feed the other fish 3 times a day (small portions of frozen meal) and he seems to really come out during those feeding times.
Kind of shocked me, I saw my skunk shrimp trying to clean the eels mouth... was just waiting for the eel to eat the shrimp, but I guess he didn't mind lol
He def. seems to be wanting more food now. I feed the other fish 3 times a day (small portions of frozen meal) and he seems to really come out during those feeding times.
Kind of shocked me, I saw my skunk shrimp trying to clean the eels mouth... was just waiting for the eel to eat the shrimp, but I guess he didn't mind lol
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Also, how many times a week and how big of chunks of shrimp should I feed him? He's around 7" long
I would shoot for 2 -3 times a week for feeding right now. As far as size goes I was feeding my smaller ones pieces of fish and shrimp roughly 1/3- 1/2" x 1.5" or 2" size strips more or less to give you a rough idea. My smallest was around 9-10".
As far as pics go I'll try to get some up this week. I set up another tank recently and had a lot of plumbing and sand issues so that has taken a lot of the free time I had. Wouldn't of been half as bad if I wasn't a moron with simple plumbing tasks, lol. I have a ton of fish pictures on cd's from my old computer, just need to find them or maybe I will snap a few new ones with my cell phone. I've been wanting to put up some of my angler and scorpion pictures anyways. Bought a new rhinopias last week and a couple new scorps.
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Most of the Echidna family will eat primarily crustaceans in the wild but three of my skeletors, just got my fourth a couple weeks ago feed just as much if not more so on fish. Two of my skeletors wont even touch the shrimp and crabs unless they are really hungry.
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Was trying to feed him every day, but on the other day he would just sort of take the shirmp and then drop it. Is there anything wrong with feeding just one type of shrimp?
I would love you thoughts on setting up a tank for eels... I plan on getting a 210+ setup early / mid next year and want to make sure I don't end up with an eel in the sump.
Big tank / sump builder in town said there really isn't a way to keep them out of the overflow/sump... but did say that the system would allow the eel to get out of the sump if it wanted to and back into the tank.
Also, I'll probably try to get one more eel for the larger tank. Would like something slightly rare, but nothing far too aggressive. Want to also keep clowns, wrasse, angels, tangs, etc...
Would love a Jap. Dragon but I know that should be a predator / species only tank.
Any suggestions would be great :wave:
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Was trying to feed him every day, but on the other day he would just sort of take the shirmp and then drop it. Is there anything wrong with feeding just one type of shrimp?
I would love you thoughts on setting up a tank for eels... I plan on getting a 210+ setup early / mid next year and want to make sure I don't end up with an eel in the sump.
Big tank / sump builder in town said there really isn't a way to keep them out of the overflow/sump... but did say that the system would allow the eel to get out of the sump if it wanted to and back into the tank.
Also, I'll probably try to get one more eel for the larger tank. Would like something slightly rare, but nothing far too aggressive. Want to also keep clowns, wrasse, angels, tangs, etc...
Would love a Jap. Dragon but I know that should be a predator / species only tank.
Any suggestions would be great :wave:
Generally I try to feed juvenile eels around 3 times per week, adults usually twice. You really want to keep the diet varied as much as possible. What I do in addition to shrimp and crab is use scraps from saltwater fish I catch each year from cod, haddock, pollock, striper, shark, etc. If I don't have any left overs which is pretty much where I am getting to right now I buy cod, haddock, and also tillapia in addition to shrimp and crab.
I usually alternate feedings for example Monday shrimp, Wed, one of the fish choices, Fri another fish choice, and then the next feeding day back to shrimp. As far as sumps go I have a few smaller and mid size tanks in the 55g and 75g range that only have hang on filtration and aggressive protein skimming so the sump isn't an issue. My larger tanks in 90g, 150g, and 210g I have Aqueon 4 sumps, aggressive protein skimming, and external filtration. Knock on wood I have not had an eel in the sump ever. Hopefully I didn't just jinx myself....
I have multiple eels in all of my tanks. I have angels and clowns in a couple tanks with smaller, somewhat benign morays like GDM's.
As far as dragons go I have two of them. They are both in seperate tanks but with other eels. One tank has a whitemouth, undulated, and a dragon. Another tank has a yellow margin, tiger moray, and dragon. One of the imporatant things with dragons is to try and have them a little smaller then the other eels and also put them in last. They are a very aggressive eel usually, however some like the undulated are just as aggressive, maybe even more so at times. If you can set up a tank just for them that would be good, they get a little size to them but not huge but most if not all tangs, angels, and clowns would be food with one.
I have an Indian trigger in one dragon tank and a green lion and puffer in another. The dragons never bothered these but a very large snowflake moray nailed the trigger a couple times in the middle of a "frenzy" because the trigger tried to swim away with the food and the moary homed in on the trigger but let it go right away.
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I'm going to move him over to every other day feedings. Right now I'm feeding him one time with gulf shrimp, the next with scallops. Maybe over time he'll get a knack for silversides.
I'll hope that when I get the 200+ tank that he'll just be happy in his caves and stay out of the sump.
That's too bad about the dragons, I really like their look but don't want to wake up to a tank full of skeletons... so pretty much if I'm going to keep reef rish I'm limited in addition to the Skeletor: a golden dwarf, zebra, chainlink or snowflake... not too interested in the last three, so I guess I'll add a GDM down the line. I sort of like having rare fish, but the skeletor and GDM seem like the only two rare morays that would kind of get along with other fish.
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Yeah I know... maybe I can teach a Dragon to play nice with the other fish ;-)
