Eel ID HELP (1 Viewer)

[TiffMunchkin]

Okay so here are some pictures of the eel which nobody seems to know what it is. so maybe y'all could help me here.

 

[NarnyTheGreat]

Looks like a green eel to me.

http://www.liveaquaria.com/product/prod_display.cfm?c=15+2730+762&pcatid=762

 

[TiffMunchkin]

his body is not green though. it looks marbled brown and white. hard to explain i will try to get a better picture of it

 

[below radar]

Have you tried using the Google Goggles app. It probably won't work but you could try it.

 

[TiffMunchkin]

the what please??

 

[below radar]

Huh????

 

[TiffMunchkin]

whats google googles app?

 

[below radar]

It will scan a picture and tell you what it is. Probably won't work on that though.

 

[maconbits]

If I could see the body it looks like my yellow head moray eel

 

[TiffMunchkin]

okay got the pictures..he turns white at night..no clue why he could go white when its pretty much pitch dark outside..would make more sense to become more dark to fade into the darkness

 

[TiffMunchkin]

this thing is so frekgina chive at night that cannot be normal! he swims back and forth up and down around my power heads sits on them sticks his head in every tiny thing he finds...swims a little more...is he on something or what? i knew they night active but holy smoky that things is fast and seems to be on speed...haha got it? speed like the drugs but also because he is fast? ..okay i am horrible at jokes.. nvm

 

[alexrex20]

yup, definitely a yellow headed moray eel, aka fimbriated moray eel.

 

[alexrex20]

be glad that your eel is active. many can be pretty shy and dare i say... boring.

 

[TiffMunchkin]

you sure about the yellow head? because it might be a undulated moray eel....

 

[alexrex20]

actually i think you're right. i've never seen an undulated before, but according to google, it does seem a better "guess" than a fimbriated. either way, good looking eel.

 

[TiffMunchkin]

thank you...i bought it for $63 from petco. I saw him sit there in the 10 gallon tank and just opening and closing its mouth...thought he was pretty cool looking...and I set up the 55 gallon pretty much only for him...took my 40 gal frag tank apart and about to move the rest of the coral in to the 55 gal.

he is pretty boring during the day though...how big do they get? i found up to 5 feet....is that correct?

 

[alexrex20]

if that's what the Internet says, it must be true.

Seriously though, these eels typically will only grow to what size their enclosure allows. My fimbriated eel was supposed to grow to 3ft, but it never really got past 20in or so in my 75gal. Another example is a black caiman which can grow to 12ft in the wild. My friend kept one in a 55gal tank for years and years and it never grew larger than 2ft. It seemed to stay a baby forever. Its growth was obviously stunted. When he sold it to a guy that has a huge outdoor pond, it grew from 2ft to 8ft in about 2 years. I guess it was playing catch-up for all those years that it was stunted.

Basically, what I'm saying is if the 55gal seems big enough for it now, then hopefully it will not outgrow the tank.

IME, most fish/reptiles will only grow to as big as their enclosure can support or accommodate.

 

[Slayer311]

Looks like a yellow headed moray to me