Wondering if there is a live food for eels

[user 26995]

I am wondering it there is possibly a live food for a dwarf golden moray eel.
I was thinking of something like feeder shrimp that wouldnt be very expensive for a couple dozen or so. I know he would go crazy for live shrimp.

 

[akunochi]

Mine seems to enjoy Fire fish...although i haven't seen her since she decided to live inside a rock....

 

[Darthv247]

goldfish my snowflake eel loved goldfish haha

 

[user 26995]

Mine seems to enjoy Fire fish...although i haven't seen her since she decided to live inside a rock....

Yeah, a little too expensive to be feeding him those.

I dont know about goldfish. I was kinda thinking of something that will live in saltwater. I had bought a rock from someone a long time ago and she had anemone shrimp in her tank. I am sure I ended up with one in that rock because my eel just went nuts when I put it in the tank. He was all over it for a long time. He had shrimp for dinner that night I'm sure.

 

[jrgilles]

In my old fish only tank, I had a 5 or 10 gallon that I stocked with feeder gold fish. Snowflake loved them. They were like a dime a piece or something.

Not sure DGM could catch them though. The goldens don't have the sharp teeth that other moray's have if I remember correctly. It is more of a plate they use to grab things with.

I have tried lots of different food for my DGM, and it really just likes squid. I buy whole squid and clean it and shop it into strips. Eel loves it.

 

[Darthv247]

yup. just keep em somewhere else. only throw 3-4 in at a time and they will be eaten quickly. if u throw 12 in they will be eaten just as fast but your eel will get fat

 

[returnofsid]

You could set up a brackish or even saltwater tank, for Black Mollies. They are sold, mostly, as a freshwater fish, even though they aren't a freshwater species. They're brackish/full saltwater and can be acclimated to anything from fresh to full reef salinity. They'll also breed very easily, in captivity.

 

[1guydude]

+1...ive heard of people feeding mollies!

Cant wait till the day i have an eel!

 

[user 26995]

Mollies...I dont know. With my luck he wont eat any of them and I will end up with a couple dozen or more. I know where I can take them if I do. I think I will get some squid for him. I was also contemplating breeding peppermint shrimp. I would rather do the shrimp. If I end up with too many of them, I can at least sell them.

The Golden dwarf moray eels are fun. At least mine is. He is out every afternoon and into the evening. Its really cool to see him swimming across the tank and in and out of the tunnels in the rocks and around coral. Its funny where he pops out sometimes. He comes out up to the front glass and just stares at me sometimes. Thats when I know he wants something to eat. He is really active and I know he could catch shrimp. haha...Speaking of which, he just popped out...lol...he's so cute!

 

[returnofsid]

haha...Speaking of which, he just popped out...lol...he's so cute!

and no pics??!!

 

[user 26995]

Here are some previous pics
I've posted these somewhere before.

Here he is just a few minutes ago.

 

[NC2WA]

when I had a snowflake eel, I normally give a chunk of mysis shrimp using tongs..that or silverslides...

my eel phase lasted about 1 month...after the snowflake attacked my red coris wrasse from behind ripping its eye out and breaking its jaw, I had to give it to a LFS...my wife freaked and that was my eel phase

 

[Krish]

I don't know about live foods Lorrie, but my buddy when he had a snowflake eel, he would either feed him squid or silversides/pilchards. He'd just defrost what he was feeding for that day and feed it to his eel. I use to be skeptical about feeding livefood to my fish (particularily my arowana when I had a freshwater tank). When LFS' bring in those feeder goldfish, you never know what diseases they may be coming with so I skipped live foods and was probably the only person here at the time that had an arowana that ate an assortment of pellets, brine shrimp, blood worms and even flakes rather than live foods. I would have thought that by feeding his eel foods that weren't "live" that it wouldn't bother any "live" food in the tank, but I guess when you are a predator you are a predator. I witnessed his eel take a strike at a clown of his taking off the entire side of it and the clown fell on his anemone and the anemone ate it. I would have never believed it had I not witnessed it myself. This was when I realized that clowns aren't completely safe with anemones. I guess when injured in this case, whatever it is they use to make themselves accepted by anemones, is no longer present and the anemone treats it as any other fish. Crazyness!!

 

[user 26995]

I have had him for hmmm one and a half years now...wow, cant believe its been that long. I feed him silversides. He wont take krill. I've tried it. I dont know that he would go after live fish. I was just thinking live shrimp if they were small enought would be something different for him. I think I will get some squid. See if he likes it.

 

[Krish]

I have had him for hmmm one and a half years now...wow, cant believe its been that long. I feed him silversides. He wont take krill. I've tried it. I dont know that he would go after live fish. I was just thinking live shrimp if they were small enought would be something different for him. I think I will get some squid. See if he likes it.

Cool! Be careful with the ink. You don't want that in the tank, but my buddy's eel went crazy for squid!! . Actually almost anything goes crazy for squid! It's one of the top choices for fish bait here.

 

[user 26995]

Cool! Be careful with the ink. You don't want that in the tank, but my buddy's eel went crazy for squid!! . Actually almost anything goes crazy for squid! It's one of the top choices for fish bait here.

?ink? in frozen squid or fresh squid or both? I've never touched a squid let alone cut one up. Is there a trick or just cut it up and rinse it off.

 

[akunochi]

I really need to get into my tank and move the rockwork until I find mine. I haven't seen her in a couple weeks before I left for Thailand.