Snowflakes, and Hermits

hrdneglcry

hrdneglcry

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I want to buy a Snowflake Eel. Hermit crabs are a very vital part of my tank, and the little ones especially are very useful. It was said that Snowflake Eels will eat crabs. I can buy a small enough Eel that will leave my large Hermts alone, but I do not want it to eat my little Hermits. All opinions are welcome. Will Snowflake Eels eat Hermit Crabs? Will they eat my other fish? How demanding are they? Will this Eel stake out a large part of real estate just for itself?
 
Hi:

I've got a snowflake Eel and he doesn't bother any of my smaller hermits. I've got some very small ones and they are just fine.

I don't find him very demanding and hardly ever see him unless it's feeding time which I do about every 3 days. I feed freeze dried Krill and frozen Krill. When I put one in the tank on the feeding stick he comes running out. They can be taught to hand feed, but I'm scared of him so I don't try. Right now he's swimming across my tank which he does in the day light about once a week.

The only thing is you can't put any shrimp or emerald crabs in the tank. I learned the hard way. He had a nice 15 dollar meal one week.

I've got aOcellaris Clownfish, 3 Blue/Green Chromis and a Lawnmower Blenny. Before the lawnmower there was a diamond back gobbie in there and he never bothered him either.

Any other questions let me know.

Angela
 
IT IS A 50/50 chance with anything you put in your tank. just because it works for one of us it could be the opposite for 10 other reefers. dont follow they "should" be fine as a rule. just advice i had a snowflake eat a baby octopus while i was in hawaii for a few years, but never touched my hermits or fish. will that be the case for you, cant tell you that only experience will do that.
 
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I would like to buy 2, or 3 large snowflake eels. They would go into a 180. I am worried that they would not get enough food. I have very competitive feeders in this tank, but I am able to get all of them fed. I will not be feeding live food. As long as they are smart enough to come out a few times a week to look for the food that I am feeding them then that is fine with me. I feed my fish shrimp, scallops, whitefish, tuna, peas, salmon, and garlic all mixed together, and frozen.
 
most are able to target feed thier snows with a feeding stick/or ahnd feed. i would think with all that variety of food it would cause them to come out of their burrows and want to search for that stinky smell they sense? just my.02
 
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sense

Yes! You are right! I have seen them come out in a tank where a large grouper had swallowed a Koi. The tail was sticking out of his mouth, and the Eels latched on, and twisted until they were able to rips pieces loose. There were several, and once the blood started flowing from the Koi the Eels went nuts!
 
Koi

Koi

The Koi was both a feeder, and an experiment. The Grouper was at least 24" long, and was the size of a roast as round as a football. The Koi was 7-9". So it was for entertainment, and feeding. The Grouper went into "the anmal side" phase as soon as it saw the Koi. It moved up to the Koi deliberately, and swallowed it in one huge strike. The strike was really fast. You would have to watch it in slo-mo to really see it. All I saw was the massive black hole mouth open, and the Grouper lurch it's body, and violently eat the Koi.
 
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Yeah it is cruel. People are worse with sharks. It was said that a guy in California has several 2000 gallon tanks with Groupers that he feeds live chickens to. Anyway, I saw the grouper eat the Koi, and that is enough for me.
 
ive had a 250 gal with 5 rather large snowflake eels and other predator fish and it was great feeding them...they were all larger so i would throw in some gold fish (bring on the critisism) and watch them all pounce for it...i would have to target feed on because if she missed the first time she wouldnt go for it again :(
 
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fish

I will not be feeding mine live food. I will feed frozen food. Hopefully the garlic in the food will lead the Eels to the food. I know that they are at their best when they can smell the food.
 
I want to keep a smallers species for grouper, like maybe a 12"er and a snowflake eel in my 125 with a couple other not reef fish like large warrases, large angels and maybe a lion fish. Yeah, feeding time is going to be fun, lol. It all depends on what the skimmer can handles and if a RDSB in a bucket works on how many fish I am going to keep. Tanks cycling right now.

Keeping a 55g SW FOWLR got old fast for me, I need bigger
 
Eels

Eels

Does anybody know how long the Eels can go without eating? I have an Argus Grouper, and they are known for going on hunger strikes for no reason for over a week. It is pretty cool actually. I have never owned a fish that I did not have to worry about when it did not eat every day. But most of the time he will eat.
 
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Here are a couple pictures of Speedy eating. It's hard to get a good picture but I tried after I figured out how to turn the flash off my camera.

Angela
 
Pooh 1989

Pooh 1989

.............how do I keep my new Eel from getting into the overflow box for the wet dry. Also hoow vigilant should I be about keeping the top completely closed with no open spaces? BTW I just bought a snowflake Eel.
 
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