Restocking Eel tank

[candeewolf]

I am looking for advice on building strictly an eel tank that will require little maintenance and have tankmates that get along well and will not outgrow the tank.

I've been keeping reef tanks for the past 3 years but I find that they are wearing on me with the maintenance and stress that they give me with little return in happiness. I've realized its likely because I lost my pride and joy zebra eel nearly 2 years ago in a move and hadn't gotten another eel until recently. The current snowflake is a joy to watch and feed, moreso than any new specimen in the past 2 years.

So, I'd like to redo my tanks, and consolidate my time and energy into one tank with little maintenance required that houses only eels (possibly some corals, we'll see). My options of tank at the moment are a 125 gal, 6 footer with at least 100 pounds of live rock. The other is a 65 gal hexagon with about 25-50 lbs live rock. I would love to house 3 or more eels in a tank (obviously that would be in the 125 if possible), or whatever I can fit in the hexagon.

Does anyone have any suggestions on putting several different eels together? I was thinking of more docile eels, like snowflake, zebra, chain, and golden. Any idea which of my options would be ok load-wise?

 

[candeewolf]

Plenty of views, but no responses I see, so I'll try to clarify if it'll make any difference.
I'm looking for others' history of keeping multiple eels (either of one or 2-3 different species). Amount of caves isn't a problem with the amount of rock I have, so the issues I am concerned about are the amount of space overall, bioload of several eels, and the ability of certain species to get along with each other.
With multiple eels, they definitely would be added at same size, nothing other than Echidna genus or Golden Morays.
Pretty much looking for what I likely can get away with in terms of the most amount of eel per gallon for each tank.

 

[ashtree68]

I had a snowflake and a ghost in a 90 for a while (and a black ribbon for a short amount of time), then moved them into a 125, they seemed to get a long okay, for the most part. There would be some fighting over food at feeding times but never had them bite each other. Lost the ghost when it went into the sump and lsot a fight with the return pump.