The larger spiny eels are tougher and this is less of a problem, and the African species live in rocky habitats in parts of their range and do fine without sand. This point cannot be stressed strongly enough. Once this happens you will see the fish covered in bloody sores. What happens is the gravel abrades the skin, and sooner or later this allows a nasty bacterial infection to set in. Doing this will lead to their inevitable death. You absolutely must not, ever, keep these fish in a tank with gravel. This does mean that each fish must be able to hide away when it wants to: they will fight if forced to share the same hollow ornament or whatever. These are relatively sociable eels and often do well in small groups.
#PEACOCK WOLF EEL PLUS#
It's a pinkish-brown animal with a beige stripe along the midline of the body from the head almost to the tail, plus a series of eyespots on the dorsal fin. The most common species tends to be Macrognathus siamensis. Just to be sure: there are several fish sold as "peacock eels". Maybe it will calm down and stop swimming back and forth? I also want to get some really good piece of driftwood, or plastic prop that the eel can hide in. I am also thinking about getting a second eel, maybe then it will calm down. I don't think anything happened with that.Ĭould anyone please tell me if the frozen food will work, and how I feed it to him? Or if any of the other food I got will do? I saw someone uses a turkey baster to inject the food into the gravel? Will my eel find that, if he doesn't burrow yet? Or should I find someplace that sells live bloodworms? Mainly because I thought it would be cool to watch, and I thought it would be good food for the eel. I also bought a vial of brine shrimp eggs that are supposed to hatch. I also bought some dry cubes of brine shrimp because I knew that stuff sinks easier. We already had some dry bloodworms on hand, but they are really hard to get to sink, so all the other fish eat them up before the eel even notices. Do you just drop the whole thing in? Will it sink? Is it better to cut it into pieces? Will it even eat it? All my eel is interested in, is swimming back and forth! I don't even think it will notice food.
#PEACOCK WOLF EEL HOW TO#
I'm sort of confused as to how to feed these to the eel. Got some frozen cubes of shrimp/bloodworm mix. I was reading around and noticed they don't eat flake food, so I went back to the store and found some food I thought it might like. All it does is swim back and forth, back and forth, back and forth, back and forth, back and forth, along the backside of the tank. I have the same size gravel in my tank plus all sorts of live plants, and some stacked drift wood. When we bought it, it was burrowed in gravel just fine. So far I haven't seen my eel eat anything. Okay, I just bought a peacock eel a couple days ago, and I want to make sure that I can keep him alive!
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