Golden Dwarf Eel

Mistborn · Oct 19, 2016

Does anybody have experience with these guys? Besides a tight lid, anything special about these guys?

cromag27 · Oct 20, 2016

Stay small but can still eat small fish and inverts. some are super vibrant and some are pale in color. my fav "reef safe" eel.

eatbreakfast · Oct 20, 2016

I've never had an issue with them with fish. They can be shy when initially introduced. They LOVE clams on the half shell.

Mistborn · Oct 20, 2016

cromag08 said:
Stay small but can still eat small fish and inverts. some are super vibrant and some are pale in color. my fav "reef safe" eel.

I got my pick of the litter. I chose the one with the deepest "gold" color.

cromag27 · Oct 20, 2016

Nice!

Mistborn said:
I got my pick of the litter. I chose the one with the deepest "gold" color.

Mistborn · Oct 20, 2016

Little guy will be here tomorrow!!!

Mistborn · Oct 21, 2016

He's in!

Duke4Life · Oct 21, 2016

I love the eyes. I don't know what you plan on feeding but try and stay away from silversides and krill.

Mistborn · Oct 21, 2016

Duke4Life said:
I love the eyes. I don't know what you plan on feeding but try and stay away from silversides and krill.

They have a hint of blue in them too.
I was gonna try table shrimp, I feed silver sides, but I stuff em with pellets. Is that okay?

Duke4Life · Oct 21, 2016

Mistborn said:
They have a hint of blue in them too.
I was gonna try table shrimp, I feed silver sides, but I stuff em with pellets. Is that okay?

Can you get fresh fish? I was advised to stay away from silversides. Shrimp I was told as long as you soak in vitamins. The more varied of a diet the better.

Mistborn · Oct 21, 2016

Duke4Life said:
Can you get fresh fish? I was advised to stay away from silversides. Shrimp I was told as long as you soak in vitamins. The more varied of a diet the better.

Yeah, I've got a bunch of different fish in the freezer right now. Tuna, croaker and snapper. Will that do?

Duke4Life · Oct 21, 2016

Mistborn said:
Yeah, I've got a bunch of different fish in the freezer right now. Tuna, croaker and snapper. Will that do?

Small pieces and yes

if you can ever get squid and octopus mix that in as well.

Webslinger · Oct 21, 2016

Mine took out a couple emerald crabs but that's it. I would stay away from silversides as you would be training it to go after fish. Table shrimp pieces soaked with selcon, clams in the halfshell, squid. Never tried krill.

Mistborn · Oct 21, 2016

Awesome, sounds good guys! I do indeed have a gallon bag of small frozen squid too.

Myka · Apr 16, 2017

@Mistborn how is your eel doing? Did he acclimate to your reef well? Eat anything he wasn't supposed to? What have you been able to feed him?

Mistborn · Apr 16, 2017

Myka said:
@Mistborn how is your eel doing? Did he acclimate to your reef well? Eat anything he wasn't supposed to? What have you been able to feed him?

I ended up getting him to maybe eat a shrimp or silverside now and then. It was rather difficult to get him to eat. It didn't touch anything in my tank. I got pretty tired of having it be a total recluse and sold it to an lfs. He ended up jumping that night...

Myka · Apr 18, 2017

Mistborn said:
I ended up getting him to maybe eat a shrimp or silverside now and then. It was rather difficult to get him to eat. It didn't touch anything in my tank. I got pretty tired of having it be a total recluse and sold it to an lfs. He ended up jumping that night...

Aw...

Too bad it didn't work out.