Golden Dwarf Moray Eel not eating.

DarthSimon · Feb 20, 2018

Awesome!!!

What was he eating in photo?

Anarcha0s · Feb 20, 2018

DarthSimon said:
Awesome!!!

What was he eating in photo?

A piece of table shrimp from Walmart lol

DarthSimon · Feb 20, 2018

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BobbyOtto · Feb 20, 2018

Only read the first page, however a great food to get a eel eating is crawfish. Get some small enough for him to eat, its a little magic trick I've used for years to get finicky eels to eat.

Edit: Glad its eating

Anarcha0s · Feb 20, 2018

BobbyOtto said:
Only read the first page, however a great food to get a eel eating is crawfish. Get some small enough for him to eat, its a little magic trick I've used for years to get finicky eels to eat.

Edit: Glad its eating

I can try that, it never hurts to have variety in their diet

TinyChocobo · Feb 20, 2018

Glad to see he's eating.

Personally, at least right now, I have no interest in eels. Seem like too much of a pain in the butt for a critter that will almost never come out where I can see it

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Anarcha0s · Feb 20, 2018

TinyChocobo said:
Glad to see he's eating.

Personally, at least right now, I have no interest in eels. Seem like too much of a pain in the butt for a critter that will almost never come out where I can see it .

I get that, I've loved eels since I was a kid, so they are kind of special to me lol and the snowflake has a lot of personality, golden not as much lol

sp1187 · Feb 20, 2018

ok, I haven't read thru all of this, (lunch break at work), if you haven't tried feeder goldfish, try that. yea.... supposedly it isn't good for them, but that's what I fed my 2 12" long snowflakes, and my 10" whitemouth moray and my large lionfish. did that for 12 years until I sold them. this was back in the late 80's-90's. that's what most people fed their predators back then. they didn't seem to be suffering any.

SashimiTurtle · Mar 15, 2018

It's been a while and somehow this thread got burried in my notifications. I'm glad you got your eel eating. I'm thinking mine is a combination of new tongs and some water quality issues from my DI. Hopefully with the water quality solved I can get him used to the tongs...

Anarcha0s · Mar 15, 2018

Robin Haselden said:
It's been a while and somehow this thread got burried in my notifications. I'm glad you got your eel eating. I'm thinking mine is a combination of new tongs and some water quality issues from my DI. Hopefully with the water quality solved I can get him used to the tongs...

Thanks! Yeah he just is really shy, ill see him eating a little piece of shrimp I drop in every now and then. Have you tried a skewer? The tongs might reflect light and freak him out.

SashimiTurtle · Mar 15, 2018

Anarcha0s said:
Thanks! Yeah he just is really shy, ill see him eating a little piece of shrimp I drop in every now and then. Have you tried a skewer? The tongs might reflect light and freak him out.

He used to eat off metal tongs, then quit... I now have plastic 3d printed tongs that are much larger. Going to get more metal tongs today. I've also tried a bamboo skewer with no luck. I'm gonna find some ghost shrimp and see if he'll go for them.

jasonrusso · Mar 15, 2018

Robin Haselden said:
He used to eat off metal tongs, then quit... I now have plastic 3d printed tongs that are much larger. Going to get more metal tongs today. I've also tried a bamboo skewer with no luck. I'm gonna find some ghost shrimp and see if he'll go for them.

Mine rips food off of plastic tongs. Once they associate the tongs with food it's a breeze. He eats whatever is on them.

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