Snowflake Eel

Jacksfish2020 · Nov 30, 2020

I just bought a snowflake eel I’ll attach a video of him down below, I’m going away in about a week for a month and getting a person to come in the once a week to feed him his shrimp, will my other fish be goners? I have a leopard wrasse of good size, a foxface still small but a good size, a carpenter fairy wrasse which I’m worried about, a maroon clownfish in an anemone, a full size pink diamond goby and a filefish which is very very slow! Can someone please tell me if he could even kill any of these fish? Without them escaping? “He isn’t very big”

ramullins86 · Nov 30, 2020

If he isn’t to big an will be well fed you should be fine.

Jacksfish2020 · Nov 30, 2020

ramullins86 said:
If he isn’t to big an will be well fed you should be fine.

He’s being fed once a week as I’m leaving

smlarson72 · Nov 30, 2020

He should be fine. Mine has never gone after any of my fish. He pokes his head out when he is hungry and then goes back into the rocks after he has eaten.

Jacksfish2020 · Nov 30, 2020

smlarson72 said:
He should be fine. Mine has never gone after any of my fish. He pokes his head out when he is hungry and then goes back into the rocks after he has eaten.

But like I’m only feeding him once a week? Cause I’m going on vacation and the person “the feeder” can only come once a week

smlarson72 · Nov 30, 2020

@lionking has good advise too.

lion king · Nov 30, 2020

I can't see the vid but I'm thinking things are going to be fine. A week between feeding is really not that long for an eel. Just feed him his full and allow him to retreat and tell you he's full. Snowflakes are pebble tooth eels and any fish they would eat would have to go down smoothly, they don't grab and roll like a fang tooth. The body shape of most are not to be threatened, the full size wrasse and goby I also wouldn't worry about. If the fish you are worried is wider than head of the eel I also wouldn't worry, if he hasn't ambushed while he was sleeping already, he likely won't.

lion king · Dec 1, 2020

Saw the vid but I didn't see the carpenters that you are concerned about, unless he is tiny, smaller than any I have seen, I wouldn't be worried.

nereefpat · Dec 1, 2020

The other fishes, especially the wrasses, will need fed more than once a week, so hopefully you have an auto feeder for them.

fluked · Dec 1, 2020

I don't have an eel, so grain of salt.. but what about using freeze dried krill in an auto feeder? Or stock up on cheap hermit crabs/snails as it might go for them over a fish?