Hi everyone,
I'm new to the forum and hobby.
I may have a problem. I have a juvenile snowflake moray eel (approximately 12" in length and 3/4" in diameter at its thickest) that has not shown itself in 4 full days. This is abnormal for it. I usually feed it 2-3 times per week when it comes out fully and swims around. Otherwise it is in its cave (sometimes where I cannot see it at all), or just it's head is out of its cave for large portions of the day, but I see it every single day. I have not seen it once in four full days now. The eel was my first fish in the tank (my tank is 10 months old now, so I've had the eel for nearly 9 months. Not sure what to do. I know they come out when they are hungry, and it usually is out every 2-3 days swimming around when I feed the other fish. I don't want to start moving around my live rock looking for him if I don't have to. Has anyone had this happen with a young snowflake before? At what point should I start a recovery operation?
Background on my tank:
I have a 54 gallon Aqueon Corner Bowfront tank. It's not plumbed, so I'm running the following:
•Fluval 406 Canister Filter (running SeaChem's Purigen, PhosGuard, and Matrix, along with a bag of ChemiPure Elite in the trays)
•Aquamaxx HOB-1 Skimmer
•CPR Aquafuge2 HOB Refugium (with deep sand bed, rubble rock, and chaetomorpha)
•Tunze Osmilator ATO with 5 gallon Trigger Systems Reservoir
•EcoTech MP10
•Maxspect Gyre X230 (set to alternating Gyre)
•T5 Lighting (4 bulb fixture)
•Custom lid from Artfully Acrylic (netted to keep my eel and wrasse in)
•2016 Apex Controller
I'm new to the forum and hobby.
I may have a problem. I have a juvenile snowflake moray eel (approximately 12" in length and 3/4" in diameter at its thickest) that has not shown itself in 4 full days. This is abnormal for it. I usually feed it 2-3 times per week when it comes out fully and swims around. Otherwise it is in its cave (sometimes where I cannot see it at all), or just it's head is out of its cave for large portions of the day, but I see it every single day. I have not seen it once in four full days now. The eel was my first fish in the tank (my tank is 10 months old now, so I've had the eel for nearly 9 months. Not sure what to do. I know they come out when they are hungry, and it usually is out every 2-3 days swimming around when I feed the other fish. I don't want to start moving around my live rock looking for him if I don't have to. Has anyone had this happen with a young snowflake before? At what point should I start a recovery operation?
Background on my tank:
I have a 54 gallon Aqueon Corner Bowfront tank. It's not plumbed, so I'm running the following:
•Fluval 406 Canister Filter (running SeaChem's Purigen, PhosGuard, and Matrix, along with a bag of ChemiPure Elite in the trays)
•Aquamaxx HOB-1 Skimmer
•CPR Aquafuge2 HOB Refugium (with deep sand bed, rubble rock, and chaetomorpha)
•Tunze Osmilator ATO with 5 gallon Trigger Systems Reservoir
•EcoTech MP10
•Maxspect Gyre X230 (set to alternating Gyre)
•T5 Lighting (4 bulb fixture)
•Custom lid from Artfully Acrylic (netted to keep my eel and wrasse in)
•2016 Apex Controller
