My Blue Ribbon Eel eats! (pics and videos)
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plecosword
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Found it again! my very favorite build! gave it a 5, rating 
flasher1
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From what I have read about them...
Black coloration is juvenile stage.
Yellow is female.
Blue is male.
From my studies as a Biology student...
I am assuming that those branches on the eels nose act as external gills. Since eels have no fins and move around by what looks to be jet propulsion, it needs a decent amount of flow to keep oxygenated water moving through its gills. That would explain why he comes out of his pipe when you shut all of the pumps off. Also, since most eels are nocturnal their eyesite is geared more towards that. During the day time they are basically blind. It may be easier to get it to eat at night time.
These are just my observations as a biology student. I am looking to get a br eel (I have one on hold at the LFS).
Great Thread,
Mike
Black coloration is juvenile stage.
Yellow is female.
Blue is male.
From my studies as a Biology student...
I am assuming that those branches on the eels nose act as external gills. Since eels have no fins and move around by what looks to be jet propulsion, it needs a decent amount of flow to keep oxygenated water moving through its gills. That would explain why he comes out of his pipe when you shut all of the pumps off. Also, since most eels are nocturnal their eyesite is geared more towards that. During the day time they are basically blind. It may be easier to get it to eat at night time.
These are just my observations as a biology student. I am looking to get a br eel (I have one on hold at the LFS).
Great Thread,
Mike
Appaloosa1224
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Blue Ribbons are in the family muraenidae which have the typical mouth gaping to force water past the gills. I guess it is possible that the nostrils serve a similar purpose though.
SirVilhelm
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Bringing this thread back from the dead!
I just picked up a BR eel on Saturday. The LFS said it was eating but I've yet to see it. The employee at the LFS said they got him to eat late at night only so Sunday night I waited until about 2 am. He had his head just barely sticking out of his burrow so I dropped a frozen(thawed) silver side next to him. I looked away for a second and the silver side and the BR were gone. I am 90% sure that he took it but without witnessing it myself I cannot be sure.
This thread is absolutely awesome. I will be trying multiple methods of feeding listed here until I witness him take the food first hand. I am not sure why this thread died out but I would like to bring it back.
Not sure if all these guys are still members here but if you're still around come back and let me know your experiences!
I just picked up a BR eel on Saturday. The LFS said it was eating but I've yet to see it. The employee at the LFS said they got him to eat late at night only so Sunday night I waited until about 2 am. He had his head just barely sticking out of his burrow so I dropped a frozen(thawed) silver side next to him. I looked away for a second and the silver side and the BR were gone. I am 90% sure that he took it but without witnessing it myself I cannot be sure.
This thread is absolutely awesome. I will be trying multiple methods of feeding listed here until I witness him take the food first hand. I am not sure why this thread died out but I would like to bring it back.
Not sure if all these guys are still members here but if you're still around come back and let me know your experiences!
HomeSlizzice
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Ya lets bring this thread back from the dead!
cb747
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As long as this is back from the dead i lost my Black Ribbon eel to something dumb. It got sucked in tail first into one of my tunze streams. Ironically the eel wasnt damaged but it had its toll taken on it from trying to get out. It wasnt there more than an hour and i was pretty upset.
SirVilhelm
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Aw man that's terrible. It sucks to lose a fish, specially one that you've had to take the extra time to care for.
mrkalel
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Holy crap bro... would you believe that the exact same damn thing happened to mine about 2 mnt ago.... god I wanted to cry...
I hand fed that guy for months... he literally had doubled in size and he would always swim out to me whenever I was around and swim in and around my hand...
One of my worst loses ever...
SirVilhelm
Member
Are you going to try again?
SirVilhelm
Member
HE EATS!
HE EATS!
Well just a quick update on my situation. HE EATS!<BR>
After 3 ½ weeks of constant trial and error I finally got the poor guy to eat some grub. Now he won’t stop! <BR>
Over the 3 ½ weeks of him slowly starving I tried everything suggested in this thread and he just wouldn’t take anything. I tried guppies, mollies, gold fish, frozen silversides and even fresh table shrimp straight from the local asian market. Nothing worked until last Saturday I noticed my purple firefish goby was missing. Normally I hate losing a fish but I thought that if my eel ate the goby than that would be a good loss (if there is ever such a thing). By this point the eel started to really loose color and energy. So I thought what the hell. Maybe he ate my goby and is ready to take some live feeder guppies. What do you know he was! The same time I picked up the guppies I got a new goby as well. I haven’t seen him since the day I put him in there. <BR>
He still doesn’t eat off a skewer and will only accept food from the eel looking clippers I picked up (and referenced earlier in the thread). But as long as he eats I am a happy man.<BR>
I made a video of it that I threw up onto youtube if anyone wants to check it out.
My eel eating<BR>
The video was shot in one 20 min feeding session. I chopped it up to just show you the interesting parts. Hope you all enjoy.
HE EATS!
Well just a quick update on my situation. HE EATS!<BR>
After 3 ½ weeks of constant trial and error I finally got the poor guy to eat some grub. Now he won’t stop! <BR>
Over the 3 ½ weeks of him slowly starving I tried everything suggested in this thread and he just wouldn’t take anything. I tried guppies, mollies, gold fish, frozen silversides and even fresh table shrimp straight from the local asian market. Nothing worked until last Saturday I noticed my purple firefish goby was missing. Normally I hate losing a fish but I thought that if my eel ate the goby than that would be a good loss (if there is ever such a thing). By this point the eel started to really loose color and energy. So I thought what the hell. Maybe he ate my goby and is ready to take some live feeder guppies. What do you know he was! The same time I picked up the guppies I got a new goby as well. I haven’t seen him since the day I put him in there. <BR>
He still doesn’t eat off a skewer and will only accept food from the eel looking clippers I picked up (and referenced earlier in the thread). But as long as he eats I am a happy man
.<BR>I made a video of it that I threw up onto youtube if anyone wants to check it out.
My eel eating<BR>
The video was shot in one 20 min feeding session. I chopped it up to just show you the interesting parts. Hope you all enjoy.
