Garden Eels

[Breakthecycle2]

Anyone keep them? I know they are difficult to get to eat, but if you could find one that is eating, would you buy it?

 

[melypr1985]

I know somebody who bought a couple a few weeks ago. Not sure how they are doing now. Now I think I will ask him and see what he says.

 

[Breakthecycle2]

Thank you.

 

[eatbreakfast]

I have kept them and didn't find it difficult to get them eating, they ate pretty much any meaty food that came by them. Where there was a challenge with feeding was when other fish would swim by the garden eels would duck back into the sand. Garden eels will also not chase food down, so the tank needs to be overfed.

 

[melypr1985]

My buddy said that his garden eels have adapted quite well to his tank and he had no problems getting them to eat. He's very happy with them. For what it's worth to ya

 

[Breakthecycle2]

Do you know what kind of fish are with them and what size tank?

 

[melypr1985]

I know it's about 200 gallons, with a flame angel, a couple really big damsels and two pj cardinals.

 

[androsreef]

I always wanted to get a few, I found two different color but I stayed away from them until now seeing the post lol [HASHTAG]#inspired[/HASHTAG]

 

[Maniacodesrecifs]

Hi, no problem to keep these fish. You need a deep sand tank, but easy as you can see on the video:

 

[androsreef]

how many gallons is your tank, also nice video

 

[Maniacodesrecifs]

Hi, the tank was 142 g and with the filtration in the garage: 260g

 

[androsreef]

nice, well looks like you gonna need to frag soon so send me a pm lol when you do if you do

 

[Maniacodesrecifs]

It was my old tank. I stopped it for professionnal reasons...but the virus his still there...thinking for something new!

 

[androsreef]

Oh so u might switch your built completely

 

[Liquidgold]

Hi, I presently keep 2 garden eels in my 45 gallon seahorse tank. They are very easy to keep and feed. I have a 3" sand bed.

 

[androsreef]

Nice but what size sand gain you have for your sand bed and does it matter on the gain size. Fine to course

 

[Liquidgold]

I use Caribsea special grade, a coarser sand. But I think any type of sand will work.

 

[SantaMonicaHelp]

We want some but our sand is not deep enough

- Cindy