Small snowflake eel

[crobattt]

My lfs has small snowflake eel at my lfs about 7 inches and i was wondering if the eel would mess with a foxface,a powder brown, or a black nox angel?

 

[anbosu]

Not at that size. In a year or so when it gets bigger it might.

 

[namxas]

+1...once a SFE gets some size on it, you never know, and IME, the odds are that it will.

 

[crobattt]

dang, really wanted one of these too..

 

[NewJerseyreef]

Snowflake eels are invert eaters not fish eaters... If fed properly they will not mess with anyone. I've had mine for awhile now and is about 15 inches and no problems at all

 

[CPL_DSM]

Both of mine left my clowns alone and they could have eaten them if they wanted to.

 

[anbosu]

Snowflake eels are invert eaters not fish eaters... If fed properly they will not mess with anyone. I've had mine for awhile now and is about 15 inches and no problems at all

That is a pretty small snowflake eel still.

I'm not saying it will for sure tear up tank mates, but it is possible when it gets close to the 2' range.

 

[crobattt]

well i guess ill be getting a small one.

 

[CPL_DSM]

I dont know it took awhile for mine to get a pretty good size. Then it just jumped out one night.

 

[crobattt]

so im guessing put some tpye of lid on the tank is a good idea?

 

[vamaro]

I have had 2 large snow flakes and they never bothered anything. Even had small fish in there they could have eaten. However, I do want to mention that I feed well. If you do not keep an eel fed well, it will hunt. The only problem with a snowflake is that they escape out of the tank really easy. You need to lid or it will end up on the floor.

Right now, I have a jeweled eel that could easily kill some of my smaller fish, but its fed well and leaves things alone including my cleaners.