jaspercrane
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We have had a dragon eel for ~4 months, and it is acting normal except for not eating well. He is 18 inches long.
Everything I read online is that they can go weeks without food - especially when put in a new environment - but I have only seen him eat <10 times. He was getting only live bait fish in his prior home, but we can't take that risk since we have a fish-only tank with a bunch of tank mates, and live food for the eel could bring disease into the tank. We have tried salmon, snapper, octopus, shrimp, squid from HEB... really all the foods they recommend online.
Does anyone have any suggestions on getting him to eat? We are thinking of taking him out and getting him used to "not live" food in another tank by himself.
For some background, we have always wanted a saltwater tank and are new to the hobby. We recently installed a first fish-only aquarium with mostly tangs, a few anthias & chromis, and also a few randoms (puffer, squirrel, harlequin tusk, rabbit). We tried a couple parrot fish and a few wrasse that didn't make it... likely bc of the puffer or the dragon eel! We love the hobby and look forward to learning a lot more about it!
Thanks!
Everything I read online is that they can go weeks without food - especially when put in a new environment - but I have only seen him eat <10 times. He was getting only live bait fish in his prior home, but we can't take that risk since we have a fish-only tank with a bunch of tank mates, and live food for the eel could bring disease into the tank. We have tried salmon, snapper, octopus, shrimp, squid from HEB... really all the foods they recommend online.
Does anyone have any suggestions on getting him to eat? We are thinking of taking him out and getting him used to "not live" food in another tank by himself.
For some background, we have always wanted a saltwater tank and are new to the hobby. We recently installed a first fish-only aquarium with mostly tangs, a few anthias & chromis, and also a few randoms (puffer, squirrel, harlequin tusk, rabbit). We tried a couple parrot fish and a few wrasse that didn't make it... likely bc of the puffer or the dragon eel! We love the hobby and look forward to learning a lot more about it!
Thanks!