so the eel ate again today is feeding them daily a bad thing?? should i try to just feed every other day or is he just really hungry cuz hes been at an lfs??
update on my 55 gallon new livestock!!! snowflake eel
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I did some research on this recently because I have a lionfish who will possibly eat cleaners also.
A Longspine Urchins might work...they are poisionous so carnivores usually won't attack them.
http://www.liveaquaria.com/product/prod_display.cfm?c=497+530+591&pcatid=591
Large starfish may work also ?
A Longspine Urchins might work...they are poisionous so carnivores usually won't attack them.
http://www.liveaquaria.com/product/prod_display.cfm?c=497+530+591&pcatid=591
Large starfish may work also ?
Yeah, I'd be careful about the handfeeding, too. Eyesight is not good and, once he grows up a bit, he's going to have a hard bite that is easily infected. It also winds up associating your hand with food, which can make working in the tank difficult.
As for cleanup... I'd love to hear any suggestions on a viable crew as I'm planning a 90g FOWLR with a snowflake and p. antennata which will make compatibility difficult.
P.S., Not to lecture, but I'm also not sure I'd put anymore fish in there (you're working with a 55g, right?), especially a messy eater like a lion. (Which kind were you thinking of? Maybe you could get away with a dwarf... I don't know). As those fish grow, you're going to wind up with an overstocked tank. Unless you've got a sump or fuge with some heavy duty filtration, you'll likely wind up with problems. If you have plans to upgrade in the future (say, 1 year) then it's probably fine, but otherwise I'd worry about overstocking and the health of your fish.
As for cleanup... I'd love to hear any suggestions on a viable crew as I'm planning a 90g FOWLR with a snowflake and p. antennata which will make compatibility difficult.
P.S., Not to lecture, but I'm also not sure I'd put anymore fish in there (you're working with a 55g, right?), especially a messy eater like a lion. (Which kind were you thinking of? Maybe you could get away with a dwarf... I don't know). As those fish grow, you're going to wind up with an overstocked tank. Unless you've got a sump or fuge with some heavy duty filtration, you'll likely wind up with problems. If you have plans to upgrade in the future (say, 1 year) then it's probably fine, but otherwise I'd worry about overstocking and the health of your fish.
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i do plan on upgrading my tank is just small lol my gf just upgrade to a 20g she had her 10 runing for a week.....but i do not plan on adding more fish but clean up crew i just have no idea they make such a mess and im afraid to even gravel vac my hand goes in the tank and the eel comes right out
Beautiful eel. I have to agree with the not feeding him with your hand. I used to be the keeper of the marine section of the fort worth zoo aquairium many years ago and we had two huge beautiful mooray eels and I always handfed them and one day when one of them came to take the food from my hand it grabbed my pinky finger instead. It hurt really bad and I still have a scar. I know he didn't do it intentionally, but like someone else pointed out, they don't see very well. After that happened my supervisor insisted that we give him to the dallas zoo aquarium. We had two and they needed one anyway. That was the end of my handfeeding eel days.
awwww that sucks and i did stop feeding by hand but he just recently stoped feeding all of a sudden i moved my rock work around i have a weird feeling that that might be y he is not eating
no starfish the puffer may take it out also. I have seen in long spine urchins work in some tanks but do your research, alot are algae eaters not meat. Predator tank = extra human cleanup.
