FireEater
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Walking along water during low tide last week and came across this guy. He is about 7" long and got caught away from his burrow at low tide.
He was pretty lethargic and was surprised a bird had not gotten him. Put him in a bucket of water and he perked up pretty fast.
So now he resides in my 29g tank. He refuses to eat and simply pushes away the food I offer, which is frozen Silversides. I will go down today to one of the local bait camps and get him some live shrimp, mud fish or finger mullet and see if that tempts him to eat as he has not eaten since I got him last Sunday. Maybe he is still adjusting to the new surroundings?
He spent all week trying to make a burrow in the tank and built a partial one. There is not enough sand in it, so I buried a tube under some rocks and he went in it last night.
Here he is where I found him
Here he is in his new cave laying upside down
You can see where the arrows are pointing showing where he was digging a burrow.
I'll get some more pics up when I introduce live food to him.
He was pretty lethargic and was surprised a bird had not gotten him. Put him in a bucket of water and he perked up pretty fast.
So now he resides in my 29g tank. He refuses to eat and simply pushes away the food I offer, which is frozen Silversides. I will go down today to one of the local bait camps and get him some live shrimp, mud fish or finger mullet and see if that tempts him to eat as he has not eaten since I got him last Sunday. Maybe he is still adjusting to the new surroundings?
He spent all week trying to make a burrow in the tank and built a partial one. There is not enough sand in it, so I buried a tube under some rocks and he went in it last night.
Here he is where I found him
Here he is in his new cave laying upside down
You can see where the arrows are pointing showing where he was digging a burrow.
I'll get some more pics up when I introduce live food to him.