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This is a bit urgent and involves a sad story. My husband has had a Tessalata eel for the past 2 years. It is a happy resident of a 300 gallon fish only tank. The eel grew from about 24" to about 3 feet. It ate 2 triggers, 2 green wolf eels, a harlequin tusk, an 8" parrot fish, and a very large 11" black volatan lionfish (which it later regurgitated). None of those were intended to be fish food, but it is hard to find tank mates for something like this. We ended up with a 24" spotted morray, 3 very large triggers (Picasso, Huma, and Pink Tail), and a female puffer.
Anyway, my husband left for a 3 week business trip yesterday. Late last night I heard some knocking downstairs and was kind of creeped out by it, but really didn't think it was coming from my house... Well this morning, our Tessalata was on the ground. I weighed him before discarding him and he weighed 10#. My husband loved that thing.
Now my dillema. I would like to get another one to replace him with before my husband gets back from his trip in 3 weeks. It needs to be bigger than 24" and ideally would be 30" or larger - up to 4 feet. I am probably going to get caught, but I don't want to break his heart if I don't have to.
Even though he died, we are good parents and maintain great water quality and lots of high quality seafood, 8 ft tank... it will be a very good home. If he ever outgrows it, we will get a much larger tank. So... if you bought one of these and realized it is too big, or too mean, I am very interested. Obviously I will pay for overnight shipping and a fair price for one.
This is a bit urgent and involves a sad story. My husband has had a Tessalata eel for the past 2 years. It is a happy resident of a 300 gallon fish only tank. The eel grew from about 24" to about 3 feet. It ate 2 triggers, 2 green wolf eels, a harlequin tusk, an 8" parrot fish, and a very large 11" black volatan lionfish (which it later regurgitated). None of those were intended to be fish food, but it is hard to find tank mates for something like this. We ended up with a 24" spotted morray, 3 very large triggers (Picasso, Huma, and Pink Tail), and a female puffer.
Anyway, my husband left for a 3 week business trip yesterday. Late last night I heard some knocking downstairs and was kind of creeped out by it, but really didn't think it was coming from my house... Well this morning, our Tessalata was on the ground. I weighed him before discarding him and he weighed 10#. My husband loved that thing.
Now my dillema. I would like to get another one to replace him with before my husband gets back from his trip in 3 weeks. It needs to be bigger than 24" and ideally would be 30" or larger - up to 4 feet. I am probably going to get caught, but I don't want to break his heart if I don't have to.
Even though he died, we are good parents and maintain great water quality and lots of high quality seafood, 8 ft tank... it will be a very good home. If he ever outgrows it, we will get a much larger tank. So... if you bought one of these and realized it is too big, or too mean, I am very interested. Obviously I will pay for overnight shipping and a fair price for one.
It's not worth even trying to fool your husband. No matter how close the replacement looks, he'll figure it out. Just be up front with him, it'll work out better that way. Though you might want to omit the part of the story of hearing strange noises that you didn't check out 
