Anyone else have a peacock eel like this?

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On the first day I got my peacock eel, Mushu, he spent the day only with his tip of his nose sticking out sometimes, and at night darted around a bit. (I spent an hour in the near dark waiting for his nose to pop up so I knew he was alive and okay) The next day, he spent most of the day with his head sticking out of the sand, but would dart back down when startled. The third day, he spent swimming around for about 50% of the day, and now about a week or so later, he rarely burrows himself anymore, and spends at least 90% of the day swimming out and about, not startled by anything. And this was before I added the vals when the tank was pretty bare.

Mushu never hides at all it seems, he is always out and about, usually in the front of my tank, swimming happily. He won't swim away when I put my hand in the tank or anything (I'm going to try to work on hand feeding I'm thinking) as well.

Anyone else have a peacock eel who is like this?

For those who are curious, my tank is a 75 gallon, with 2-4" of pool filter sand, and at about 80F

Here's a pic of my tank (although blurry, background is a black trash bag) you can see Mushu right in front of the driftwood
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And a couple more pics of Mushu
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Sorry it's so blurry, but here is a pic when my snail crawled on top of him, he finally moved and the snail fell off (this was his 2nd day)
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aw hes cute. once i get my 75 or 90 i want some eel like fish. sorry i dont know if most eels are like that since i dont have one yer.

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Thanks, he is my boyfriends favorite, and a petsmart pick up (I have yet to get a sick fish from Petsmart oddly enough, can't say the same about my LFS). One thing about eels though, they are slow eaters, so you have to be careful when choosing tankmates. (I have mine with 2 senegal bichirs and 1 african brown knife, which works well) and excellent escape artists (I woke up one morning to find Mushu in my overflow box)

(By the way, depending on your other stock, (bichirs will eat whatever they can fit in their mouth, and they are fairly slow eaters) I would totally go with some sort of smaller species bichir (senegal, delhezi, palmas, retropinnins all stay within 12-14"), granted they aren't too "eel" like, they are pretty darn awesome! Even at just ~4", they are my favorite fish.)
 
dani_starr said:
Thanks, he is my boyfriends favorite, and a petsmart pick up (I have yet to get a sick fish from Petsmart oddly enough, can't say the same about my LFS). One thing about eels though, they are slow eaters, so you have to be careful when choosing tankmates. (I have mine with 2 senegal bichirs and 1 african brown knife, which works well) and excellent escape artists (I woke up one morning to find Mushu in my overflow box)

(By the way, depending on your other stock, (bichirs will eat whatever they can fit in their mouth, and they are fairly slow eaters) I would totally go with some sort of smaller species bichir (senegal, delhezi, palmas, retropinnins all stay within 12-14"), granted they aren't too "eel" like, they are pretty darn awesome! Even at just ~4", they are my favorite fish.)
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yea i was thinking of getting a bichr. id have 6 congo tetras a blood parrot a kirin parrot and 2 bristlenose plecos. the eels and bichrs have always looked really cool to me.

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Do peacocks have teeth? I'm not familiar with FW eel's just salt, various morays can be very tame and hand fed but as I learned the hard way their poor eyesight and teeth can make for painful accidents.
 
You know, I'm actually not sure on that one. I'm gonna go look that up. Peacock eels are a type of "spiny eels", which actually aren't true eels at all.

*From what I have just read, nope (that is actually one thing that separates them from being a true eel I guess)
 
My peacock eel hides his head under a rock and watches the cichlids and plecos swim by, he swims around at night.

I'm pretty sure that they are nocturnal and that's why they are so active at night.


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I just found out about bichirs. They're like mudskippers right? I saw some pics someone posted of a few different types and fell in love. Depending on what goes in my next tank I don't know if I can ever have them (I tend to get really active fish that eat like pigs) but I think they're awesome (all the eel type fish too. I love unique fish). I wonder how they would do in an angel only tank :confused:
 
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