Puffers & Eels Please help quickly

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I've recently set up a 55G brackish tank to be the home for:
3 Eels
4 Figure 8 Puffers

So I went to the store and got 2 puffers & a Morray. They have been in the tank for 4 days and doing good. I went back today and got 2 more puffers, a Fire eel and a Leopard eel. I know the Morray and Puffers are brackish but after getting online i'm getting mixed opions on the other 2 eels.

Can I put a Fire Eel & Lepord Eel in there also? I've already bought them (before checking online) because the salesmen told me they could go with the Morray. I have them in a temporary 20G Freshwater for now. Thankfully I have plently of tanks set up.

Any thoughts are greatly appreciated.

Currently the SG is 1.002-1.003 so its still pretty low. The puffers are only about 1.5 inches and I read that was the right SG for that size, and the Morray was pretty flexible with the SG.

~matt
 
1. Generally, you shouldn't have more than 1 moray in a tank
2. Puffers shouldn't be kepth with other fish
3. Fire eels can't be kept in brackish water
 
I keep my f8 puffer with 8 bb gobies and a dragon goby. No probs at all, the f8 ignores them really.. I would think the same of the eels, as long as they ingore yours... 4 f8's in a 55 might be a little crowded for them. Usually 2 per 30g is cool, maybe just 3 f8 puffers would be fine. About the eels, dunno sorry.
 
I've kept fire eels for years at that salinity (see my avatar, 20" and 7 yrs old), with morays, though morays prefer higher salinity as they age.

My advice is to recognize that most brackish fish can only be optimally kept at either high or low salinity, though some are adaptable to either. Which is which can usually be determined with a 10 min google, though Neale Monk's book due out next month will, IMO, be the definitive source.

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/t...83225?_encoding=UTF8&m=ATVPDKIKX0DER&v=glance

His FAQ: http://homepage.mac.com/nmonks/aquaria/brackfaqpart1.html

Pick one or two species you can't live without, and build the tank and tankmates around'm. Some "FW" can tolerate low salinity, and some "marine" do well with high brackish.

BTW, what is a leapord eel? I have one I bought online, a polyuradon, I think.

My 110 gal tank (the 180's in perpetual under-construction)
 
i keep my morray at a SG of 1.018.

those puffers will probably kill everything though, or at least make their lives suck.

morrays can get territorial, and will be able to inflict some serious damage on you fire eel things.


my morray is about 16" long, and 6 months ago he killed my violet goby. they both liked the same artifact in my tank, and one night earl took a serious chunk out of the goby.

dont know if that helps but, yea morrays have teeth and puffers are ***holes
 
I have a Moray Eel and a Figure Eight Puffer in the same tank (45 gallon), and they get along fine. Granted, when I first put the puffer in the tank the eel tried to eat him, but once he realised the puffer couldnt fit he gave up (except for when I put krill in the tank; the puffer gets to it first and the eel tries to swollow the puffer instead of the food).

I also keep 2 BB Gobies and an Orange Chromide in the tank, and besides what I already stated, everybody gets along fine.
 
I wont comment on if its good or not but here is a pic of a spiney eel with my fig8 when I had the original low sg tank setup. The puffers never showed any interest in the eels at all, but fig8 puffers vary widely in their personalities. Some are quite passive, others are killers.



The pic isnt the best quality, its old and with low res camera. I appologize.
 
A 55g is too small for an eel that will potentially grow to 2'. The moray really needs a higher SG than the F8s (low-end BW, 1.005). The rule of thumb for F8s is 15g for the 1st one & 10g for each extra added. That's w/o any other tank mates. If you'r going to add more fish you'll need a bigger tank.
 
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