SF Eel w/ Mandarin
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mitzel
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Re: SF Eel w/ Mandarin
Well knock on wood but I have 2 snow flake eels in with my psychodelic mandarin . The bigger eel has been in there for about 6 months and is deffinatly big enough to eat the mandarin if it wanted to. It's my opinion that if you feed them small amounts daily they will tend to leave the other fish alone. Hungry fish are mean fish. But then again it may just be a matter of time before my tank breaks out in to wrestle main.
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Well knock on wood but I have 2 snow flake eels in with my psychodelic mandarin . The bigger eel has been in there for about 6 months and is deffinatly big enough to eat the mandarin if it wanted to. It's my opinion that if you feed them small amounts daily they will tend to leave the other fish alone. Hungry fish are mean fish. But then again it may just be a matter of time before my tank breaks out in to wrestle main.
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zemuron114
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my snowflake would never eat a fish i didn't give him personally.
He was the nicest fish i have ever had. He slept with my porcupine puffer, and protected my small blue damsel from my lion. That lion wanted to eat him soooo bad.. haha...
it all depends on the eel. I have heard stories that they can be realy mean. But i fed mine big shrimp and live crabs, so i think he liked the crabs more the fish (they do eat crabs in the wild)
He was the nicest fish i have ever had. He slept with my porcupine puffer, and protected my small blue damsel from my lion. That lion wanted to eat him soooo bad.. haha...
it all depends on the eel. I have heard stories that they can be realy mean. But i fed mine big shrimp and live crabs, so i think he liked the crabs more the fish (they do eat crabs in the wild)
Mad Scientist
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Mandarins have a protective coating (mucus) that makes them pretty low on the list of prey items for most species. I would not be at all concerned about a SFE eating onme.
Instead I would be concerned about the madarin chances of not starving to death. They are a challenging speices to keep alive for more than 6 months in many systems. They need a lot of LR and I would reccommend buying more pods for the systems every 3 months. If not, you can watch them gradually starve.
Instead I would be concerned about the madarin chances of not starving to death. They are a challenging speices to keep alive for more than 6 months in many systems. They need a lot of LR and I would reccommend buying more pods for the systems every 3 months. If not, you can watch them gradually starve.
Mad Scientist
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Cool, it's the people with 20gallon tanks and no LR that scare me with these guys. It sounds like you are doing a great job of taking care of him.
Petstorejunkie
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dont do it, i bet you love your mandarin very much (i know i do_). dont temp fate, you are just asking for trouble.
Mandarins are one of those fish that have an extremely high home aquarium mortality rate as it is. Eel's are PREDATORY. Yes I know some people have kept them with pet live brine they wouldn't hurt but eating smaller fish and crusty's is what they do by instinct. Unless there is a farm raised variant I don't know of these are still wild caught animals with instincts.
I recalls seeing on the news that some zoo in japan did a story on some large constrictor snake that befriended a feeder rat. Does that make it a good idea to keep hampsters and pythons together?
I recalls seeing on the news that some zoo in japan did a story on some large constrictor snake that befriended a feeder rat. Does that make it a good idea to keep hampsters and pythons together?
