Freshwater Moray Eel, can it be sustained in Freshwater only? [Archive]

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ChupaMiPinga

11-24-2003, 5:31 PM

I read that the Freshwater Moray Eel was a brackish water species and I was just wondering would it survive in a completely freshwater enviroment?

http://www.aquariacentral.com/species/db.cgi?db=fresh&uid=default&ID=0580&view_records=1

Slappy*McFish

11-24-2003, 5:55 PM

I wouldn't advise it.

OrionGirl

11-25-2003, 8:35 AM

As a juvenile, the eel will be okay in pure FW. As it ages, it will need either a brackish or full marine environment. This is the normal life cycle of these fish--they live in estuaries as juveniles, then move out to lagoons and the reefs. You cuold keep it in a heavy bracksih tank, with a sp above 1.015. Less than that, and it will be prone to illness.