TerribleJakes, It was ten days ago I last made some response to your situation and only now you think to believe I'm harsh!! NO!! I wasn`t being harsh about anything for if it is your taking it that where I said you didn`t do your research before jumping into something, it was only telling the truth as I seen it. For do note that if you did your research as your claiming to done or asked around in the forums, your results would then had been far differently then they were from the beginning of this new setup and thread.
And theire not really many things you can do for your eel, theire are only two ways it can be done, and that be the wrong way and the right way, their be no other in between ideas in this matter of caring for eels.
And yes, theire are info out theire at otheir links from store links or otheirs who claI'm to know something, but then again know that it be only that person opinion and nothing more then that. its the same thing to those who write books on eels, for the most part, they never housed these species themselves.
It was the same thing like about eight years ago if longer, an author wrote a article on the H. Dragon Moray Eel and his research studies only lasted a few weeks up near in the Japan waters. But this article has been nowhere to be found for i was looking for it to show what the author said in his research finds and he said these from what I can remember and he was wrong for the most part on all his facts, except one in which he never unstood why as an adult species, the Dragon moray will house in their own private lair alone.
He located a large group of Dragon Eels in a certain area, and in his article he said that you could never house more then one Dragon Moray in any tank, I housed for more then 14 years a male and female and while during their juvenile stages, they housed together in the same lair, when they reached their adult stages, only then did they housed on opposite sides of the tank and they done extremely well.
So with most to all eel species, while in their young juvenile stages, they will house together with other species of eels only for security means, and this includes as well the Fimbriated Moray eel and when it grows larger, it will rip into the other eels flesh to feed. So many things when it comes to housing eels, one needs to be careful on that eels tanks mates, for what may seem OK for a short time, not mean that it will stay that way for the longer term. That is why i told you that being your so small a tank, the larger type of fish that should be safe as long as you feed your eel correctly, there can be no guarantees however because we all not feed our tank pets the same.
I think, let me tell you a story from another forum link, this link has been shutdown, but the owner of that link, himself had a Fimbriated Moray eel in a 70 gal tank i think it was and he had a Stone and lionfish in the same tank. he was feeding his Fimbriated Moray mostly only silversides and he thought that all was to stay fine as it was for the time being, but i warned him that he had to either remover both the stone and lionfish, or remove the eel itself before it turns onto its tank mates. I kept on warning him that he needed to switch over to fresh fish and octopus and squid and such for his eel will soon enough turn onto its tank mates.
But he ignored my warning and kept posting pictures of the eel and lionfish side by side in the tank, and still i warned him that, that will change for the worst for his lionfish and stonefish. One day he posted when he came home, his lionfish was gone and the stonefish was moving around the tank as fast as it can.
It is like always, others do certain things in their tanks and only because they seem to be getting away with doing the wrong thing at the tI'me, they figure that they can do it all the time. So I know that you are a beginner and that you are here to learn what is best to do and I'm sorry that you assumed that im knocking you, for I'm not for understand this, i too was once as you are today, it has taking me a great deal of researching and personal studies of a great mamy different eel species to be where I am today in the knowledge of the many marine or freshwater eel species. Also if you look around and find links that they will mostly tell you that there are some 700-800 species, but in reality, there be more then 1000 species and still counting for as is, a few years ago a new species was discovered.
I know that your wolf eel would survive the tanks cycling, that it will only suffer somewhat while the tank is going through its cycle, but did you understand it to where i said that your tank will do much better with a skimmer other then with whatever HOB filter filtration you now have?
Buddy
