Turtle's Miniature Moray Menagerie

GeoffSLC · Feb 2, 2018

I wish you the best! I love those eels and get jealous of anyone that can keep them! I just get to admire from afar.

sfin52 · Feb 9, 2018

How’s he eating and did you notice any type of injury from the timber.

SashimiTurtle · Feb 9, 2018

Thawing food now, I'll let you know. He stays completely hidden 90% of the time, and when he comes out its only his head. Other wise I have no clue what condition he's in...

SashimiTurtle · Feb 9, 2018

No go on the feeding. Had a few issues with the tank that I corrected tho. Issue one, too much rock for Maui to hide in. So much rock, he stays hidden all the time and never comes out. Not even when I put food in the tank. So, I removed some rock and rearranged what I left in. Here's how it looks now.

Yea, I know not much there. It's a 14g tank, and one of the back chambers is full of marine pure. Yes, I also know it's full of GHA... I'm leaving it for the urchin. I might put a small bag of GFO in the back, but for now I'm just going to do water changes. 50% is easy on this tank... it's right around 6 gallons.

Maui is way more active now, I haven't seen this much of him since I moved him over here. Hopefully I can get him eating again tomorrow maybe...

Issue two, the return pump had sucked itself up to the side of the tank and was barely pumping any flow thru the tank. I repositioned the pump so it won't do that again.

Scurvy · Feb 11, 2018

Hope he eats for you! Seeing him more would be nice too

SashimiTurtle · Feb 11, 2018

Still not wanting to eat. He's been much more active since removing some of the rock, but still has a cave where he can hide. He wouldn't eat when I put the squid in with the tongs, so I put it in my two little fishies veggie mag... maybe he'll take it if I'm not hovering over the tank.

SashimiTurtle · Feb 11, 2018

Sitting on the couch watching...

Scurvy · Feb 11, 2018

I bet your presence at the tank had him freaked out about possibly moving again. Good call with the hands off approach!

SashimiTurtle · Feb 11, 2018

He checked it out for a minute, then ignored it. The shrimp came over and pecked at it some, now everyone is leaving it alone. I'll pull it out in a few hours if it's there.

sfin52 · Feb 11, 2018

He’s had fresh seafood may not want frozen now.

SashimiTurtle · Feb 11, 2018

I'm not buying live fish to feed him. He was eating squid, he can go back.

sfin52 · Feb 11, 2018

He’ll eat it again. It make take some time.

dakotanut · Feb 11, 2018

That is nice! So do you recommend not to get an eel with fish?

SashimiTurtle · Feb 11, 2018

As long as the fish are larger than the eel, it should be fine. This one was eating frozen squid very well, then he decided he would rather eat all my fish. I'm trying to get him to eat the squid again.

SashimiTurtle · Feb 18, 2018

Tried feeding Maui again today. No luck... I know he hasn't eaten anything since going in this tank. I'm going to leave the squid in the tank over night and see if he'll take it then. That is if the shrimp doesn't eat it first... I may have go find some silver sides somewhere to try a different food. He used to get so excited about squid, thats why im having a hard time with this.