OMOFS...In my first post, I said he hasn't eaten in over a week.
Now missing a week of feeding a eel when is very healthy is nothing to be concern about>
Now please do try to understand something, I'm not all that old but still I've been having difficulties in remembering exactly everything. Also the fact be im not only been speaking to you on a eel question, im speaking to a few dozen in all at this time by emails and so forth. And with that, I difficulties in my typing due to reasons beyond my control.
In any case, a week of not feeding is nothing to be so worried about and if this sfe looks so sick to you, I want you to do this. When you feed the eel to feed it smaller pieces of squid or shrimp, not as big as you done before.
Now only if you had just the eel, then I could say for you to try a few small peppermint shrimps. In either case, not look to try ghost shrimps, for the most part, it would be a waste of time. Also if this eel is looking as lame as you first said, if it comes to the worst of it, how do you feel about force feeding?
I am however concern about your eels health at this time due to the subnormal growth rate it has had. Also with the triggers in this tank, the idea of peppermint shrimps will not work out>
Is the eel in the darkest spot it could go, for I believe that means that time is running out for you readied the time I saved my goldentail and dme? They too were for a while in total hiding and wouldn't stick out for anything, you my friend will have to start leaving the lights off. And im sorry your not another tank at home to get the other fish out so that you might look to start something buy getting yourself a view of some kind of the eel and tell it the best way you can.
Now listen to this, I posted this in RC last year on the male dragon moray. He caused the LR to shifted on both sides of him and he then became trapped. he was at first laying low after I got him out and few days later, he was on his back and taking his last breath. The good then for me was that there were no stress in the tank due too other tank inhabitants and I preceded to treat him in two stages and in that thread at RC, I posted his recovery photo.
Now usually when a eel is out of sight and never comes out it not wishes to come out due too some harassing fish in the tank or as you were saying that it appears to be looking so terrible and depending on how long it gone through this, that it could be that its hiding for its even far worst off, it means now that time is going against its survival. So I hope that its just the other way around, that its only being a little difficult to feed at this time.
Now please do understand one thing here, im putting this together with what you told of this eel for know that with what you been feeding and lord knows if anything else be wrong for the water testing means nothing other then what the reading are.
Also please understand that you last said that you been doing a five gal water change ever so often. Now for the tank size and bio load its not nearly enough to done anything for your tank. I am however feeling real bad about this
Grins, how can I help when not one says anything of the tanks filtration system and all else, for either way, it would be nice if some others told him its great or not for its not helping me in getting through to him for if this tank is three years old as it is today running all that time with the type of water changes his made, waste buildups is as well another problem he has there.
The eel unlike the triggers and tang he have will hang low in the tank for the most part and will feel the worst of it as well the skimmers is not as well effective for that tank size and bio load. And air will be more so to the top of the tank then at the sand bed level:
I do believe very strongly that all these are his problems and are working against the eel, I wouldn`t say this if I felt it only might be a possible problem for the tank is three years running and when other hobbyists started any tank with some insufficient equipment that some point after two years if not sooner that problems were beginning to show.
I hope that I said all this in the right way that it can be understood, but right now, my heart is sadden for your sfe
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