I have a brand new snowflake eel in my thirty gallon tank. The first day that i had him he jumped out of the tank. Since then he has not tryed to escaped but since he jumped out he has not eaten. Is there a way i can get him intrested in eating again.
Snowflake Eels
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They're definitely squirmers. Make sure your lid has no openings at all. What were you feeding him before?
Snowflakes sometimes don't eat for weeks, they're good at fasting. Just offer a bit of meaty food (shrimp, etc) each day or every few days until he starts eating again. If you put it right in front of his face and he doesn't take it then he's just not interested in food yet.
Lucky that it wasn't late at night it got out as easy as it did. But still, you can only for the time being have high water quality and every few days offer the eel some type of food to see if it will eat. Also I hope that this is yet a young juvenile that is in this 30 and not near 30" for which would only add stress to your eel. I would also widen its diet to other foods such as crab and small pieces of fish and squid. Just as long as the food you feed your eel is not of freshwater. And being that it just gone through a bit of an ordeal, it might be best for the time being, not too have your tank lights on as much and hopefully as well, this eel has a good hiding place to help further minimize it being so overly stressful.
Buddy
Buddy
I've had my snowflake for 4 yrs and every time I've had to move him, he's escaped even though I thought I had the tank covered well. One time I found him dry on the floor. I put him back in the tank, moved him around and he survived! My wife thought I was crazy for putting back in the tank, she thought he was dead for sure. He doesn't eat after a move or jump for a couple of days. I had to keep mine in a 30 gal (my qt, his tank started leaking and the qt was the only thing I could put him in that was up and running) for awhile and he didn't do bad, but he likes the 90 gal. he is in now better.
try feeding him every other day for a week, after a week if he still hasn't taking interest, then you can think about getting garlic extract to add to the food.
For the most part, that could go on for any number of weeks or more and one can never plan on that it would happen in just a weeks time period :headshake2:
Buddy
This so called garlic extract, do not count on it working with your eel, you will find that it will feed and then it not just the same. I only giving this garlic extract a test with my eels about a few years ago and it done nothing to enhance my eels to feed far greater then before. And you will learn this when your eel not feast as they say. For if a persons eel is already feeding, you will see pretty much the same level in the eels diet then when you not try using the garlic extract. As is, your eel will feed more at one time and less another, no difference.
You want to get your eel to feed? Maintain its tank water at the best possible levels with low nitrates to untraceable levels and maintain your Ph level, not have your Ph jump by such a large margin in either direction, higher or lower, this will have a affect on your eels diet.
Here is something that I posted elsewhere:
Buddy
You want to get your eel to feed? Maintain its tank water at the best possible levels with low nitrates to untraceable levels and maintain your Ph level, not have your Ph jump by such a large margin in either direction, higher or lower, this will have a affect on your eels diet.
Here is something that I posted elsewhere:
Buddy