snowflake eel not eating all of a sudden

[OldManOfTheSea]

Regarding the mix sea food bags sold at the grocery stores, they are of human consumption grade with clams, octopus, shrimp and other items commonly on the menu for eels, and have a "best used by" date printed on the bag by the source.

I understood what food type you were saying, but also, the expired dates are mostly an estimated point of time to when best to use by.

Regarding general maximum size in a tank, this information was from an article I read and a few other sources I ran across agreed with it

All in this was only another persons opinion, and nothing more then their opinion. And as well, you could get many others to either agree or disagree, it will however differ from others who know better thru personal experiences.

most keepers probably don't have "perfect" condition in which they would reach the same as they would in the wild, hence the "average" max size in a tank being slightly smaller.

Know that saying perfect conditions only by what your testing for, not always mean that hobbyists tank is with perfect conditions, It always gives one a false sense of security in what their not doing right or correct.

This was where I believe my first one escaped. My second was in an 18T tank with an Eclypse system top which I believed to be "enclosed" but this one found a much smaller escape route. This, by the way, was when I was very new to marine tanks, but I did have a 60 gallon in the garage and my itentions were to transfer it to the larger tank when it got bigger.

When at the time I had the 30 gal Long with the pair of dwarf eels, I made sure that there was no escape route for them, this also meant that I covered the overflow box as well. Eels during the night, will move about, if hungry or so. Also, what you read in books are the same thing, it be some other persons opinion, never assume that the person who words you read means that his thoughts on the subject are with out error. One other wrote an article on the H. dragon moray, and his final thoughts to that was that you shouldn't house any two together, and I did it for more then 14 years.

Also, the person who wrote that, he not keep that eel himself, so by what knowledge does he when saying what you shouldn't do or not? eels, are the most hardy marine animals you could keep, if you do what I say in this, you would find that are in what you seem to believe, would be changed forever, and that you would always maintain a open mind in these matters.

Buddy