feeding my fire eel

i've heard soaking the food with some slices of fresh garlic will stimulate the appetite. i might have to do the same thing with my dwarf puffers because all they'll eat is live tubifex worms and i'd like them to get variety for better nutrition, like you said. just put the garlic, krill (or whatever food) and some warm water in a cup for about 10 minutes. then fish the food out and put it in the tank.

hope that works! i'll let you know how it goes with my babies.

also, you might try some cut up squid or shrimp, too. most large carnivorous fish like those quite a bit.

fire eels and other spiney eels are notoriously difficult to get to eat frozen or freeze dried foods. i bet he will eat other live foods though.

Wow havnt been on here in a while... Mine eats live blackworms(so do the rest of my fish black arow, clown loaches,bgk,etc) I order mine from www.aquaticfoods.com since I go threw so many way cheaper than any lfs... Good luck

Ghost shrimp mine loves ghost shrimp. He has to work alittle which gives me a chance to see him stalking its almost like a cobra strike. You have to see it its a very cool thing mine comes up behind the shrimp in a jerky movement i guess to confuse the prey then strikes its so cool. Usually misses which is where the work comes from.

Ghost shrimp are suppose to be easy to breed to just a 10g with java fern.
Thats what i've heard going to try it soon.

if you want to breed ghost shrimp, make sure you have a special cover on your filter inlet, or it'll just suck up the larvae. or you could just do without a filter, and just have an airstone for circulation.