fw moray in full salt water

Snowflake eels are not really FW. They stay in F/BW as juveniles, but move into full marine conditions as adults. I don't know of anyone successfully keeping one in completely freshwater for a normal lifespan, but they do very well in marine. Just acclimate it slowly from it's current water to marine.
 
Ya I have him in brackish at about a 1.00o9 salinity and wouldlove to put him in my 100 gallon full salt tank and wantedto make sure that was all right thank you for the info.
 
Welcome to Aquaria Central! They do appreciate being in full strength salt so it will be fine, but be sure to do it very slowly. I wouldn't go more than .004 per week. So if you do it over a 3 week period or so it will be fine. I would change some water mid week increase it by .002 then do another during the weekend and increase the other .002. Anyway, hope this helps and good luck with him. What do you have in the salt tank?
 
right now just the live san and live rock and a single damsel I am still to scared to put anything in there until the damseldoes good for quite a while

I also have a 100 oscar tank with 2 oscar a pictus cat and a pleco
a 30 gallon with the eel I know its to small but I was miss informed at the pet store
I have a 10 gallon feeder tank with a craw dad and a 20 gallon hopfully soon to be nano reef but it is alswo still cycling
 
I was wondering right now I have him in a freshwaterr type set up with gravel and stuff but to get him in a salt type set up with corel and stuff should I just take out all his stuff yet leave his cycled water or should I leave it how it is untill I move him to the salt water tank
 
Anything else in there? If not, just start using low brackish levels for water changes, gradually increasing the levels. Once the water is up to marine levels, just move the fish.

The water isn't really 'cycled'--it does not contain the beneficial bacteria. They are attached to the filter media, substrate, and decorations in the tank. As the salinity rises, the FW version will die off, but the SW type will develop. Done right, there really isn't a spike. Too fast, and there can be.
 
well he has been in brackish since I found out he was a brackish fish and that was about 6 months ago and I am just now riseing the salinity to full marine but I did not want to put crushed coral in his tank or live sand yet if it would harm him but if it would be all right I would like to so when I do move him I can put my damsels in his tank
 
You can make the change, but do so slowly, so you don't remove all the beneficial bacteria at once. Or, you can keep the damsels in with the eel, and tear the 30 down completely, redo the substrate etc, and then fishlessly cycle it. Snowflakes go after crustaceans--the fish will be safe with it for quite some time.
 
thanks for all the info and I had not thought about putting the eel and the damsel together I guess I figured it would eat the damsel so I will have to do just that and again thanks
 
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