Pictures and a question

Lovely gift from your wife. Hope you enjoy the tank and your pets for many years to come. Look forward to more posts from you. I hope you are able to get better advice from your LFS in the future, I'm not surprised one suggested to cycle with a damsel but a bit shocked they said an eel would be OK. In any event, it is gorgeous.
 
Grins, thank you!

Cyclops23, "Elli"(the Zebra eel) as I have come to call him gets feed a daily diet of 2-3 frozen shrimp at the same time the damsels get there flakes or pellets. Per the advice of others on this site I no longer hand feed him (LFS told me to), and as in my last post the damsels have started attacking my hand when I reach in to get leftover shrimp off the bottom. So , I can see this becoming a problem when adding additional fish. LFS told me no problem just move all the rocks around and then they would feel like they were in a new tank and this would stop.

Has anyone had sucess with this method? What would you suggest?

I also intend to add some additional rock to the tank, probably when I add the new fish.
 
witmerboarder said:
Grins, thank you!

Cyclops23, "Elli"(the Zebra eel) as I have come to call him gets feed a daily diet of 2-3 frozen shrimp at the same time the damsels get there flakes or pellets. Per the advice of others on this site I no longer hand feed him (LFS told me to), and as in my last post the damsels have started attacking my hand when I reach in to get leftover shrimp off the bottom. So , I can see this becoming a problem when adding additional fish. LFS told me no problem just move all the rocks around and then they would feel like they were in a new tank and this would stop.

Has anyone had sucess with this method? What would you suggest?

I also intend to add some additional rock to the tank, probably when I add the new fish.
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WOW...i am amazed they said it would be ok to hand feed...stuff that....LOL....

Moving the rock does not always work i have found, sometimes, all you can do is remove the damsel's...

Niko
 
Does removing the Damsels into a quarantine tank for a few days and then placing them back into the main tank work?

LFS is the best one in town :( only one that sells Marine other than the chain stores such as Petsmart and petco.
 
i would concentrate on getting more rock in the tank for the eel to have a cave....once thats sorted then i would add the tang after a couple of weeks.....just in my humble opinion......awesome eel though.
 
yeah, hand feeding is a bad idea. i think most eel owners use a feeding stick.
moving the rocks might (just might) wrk with adding clowns, but i don't think it will help with the damsels.
someone please correct me if i'm wrong(i usually am, accordind to my girlfriend :) ), but your best bet may be just to take the damsels out into a seperate tank until you have all the other fish you want in the main tank. even then, i'm not sure if it will be ok. i only had damsels for about 2 weeks, so i'm speaking from limited experience.
 
I was thinking of placing a piece of 2" PVC pipe allong the back wall and placing the rock over it to hide it. Elli currently curles up in the corner behind the colored decoration. He has also learned that when I turn the lights on it is feeding time and he comes out and swims around.
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man that is an awesome looking eel!

good idea with the PVC. they like to have their body covered with just their head sticking out.

i actually made a PVC "cave" for my future zebra. makeshift, but it'll work:
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i will stack the rock around and on top of this. maybe use some glue to make the rockwork more stable.
 
witmerboarder said:
LFS is the best one in town :( only one that sells Marine other than the chain stores such as Petsmart and petco.
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As is said on this forum a lot, there are a lot of theories that float arond the saltwater world. Educate yourself on livestock and decide for yourself whether the LFS gives advice you'll follow or not. I've been known to chit chat with other buyers at my LFS and give my point of view and my opinion and why when it differs from that of the fish guy at the place I shop. I make it clear that by no means do I know everything, or am trying to tell the person what to do, but to give them another thought and to make their own mind up on what to do.

The eel is beautiful. If I wouldn't be scared of them and had a big enough tank suitable for one, I'd like to have one. The LFS has a moray eel (not sure what kind) now and it intriques me although I do get squeamish when it comes right up to the glass when I'm on my tippy toes to look into its tank (which is on the top of the rows of tanks).
 
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