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Anonymous - 2008-12-11
Hello,

I'm new to this site. So far I have found it fascinating and extremely educational. I own two Clown Knife fish that I purchased about 5 months ago from a local pet store. (The told me the specimens were "African Clown Knife fish") -shrug- Anyway, I was wondering if the Black spotted Eel would get along with my Knife fish? The larger of the Knife fish is roughly 7-8" and the smaller about 6-7 1/2" I was thinking (if they would get along) about purchasing a Black Spotted Eel, probably 5-6 1/2"
Some advice would be much appreciated.

Thank you,

Marine Life Momma

nick - 2008-12-09
For some odd reason my peacock eel named stripes just does not eat. If you have any suggestions please let me know.

aerial - 2008-11-03
It's weird looking, but it's kind of cute actually!

Aaron - 2008-10-10
My peacock eel, for some reason, doesn't understand what sleeping is. He's active all day, swiming around the tank with some african chiclids and another peacock eel, all they do all day is swim! Then I get up during the night, turn the tank light on, guess who's speeding around the tank annoying the hell outta my chiclids? Well, they're really great pets, they hand feed like right off the bat and you can put them in a tank with pretty much anything. Columbian sharks and africian chiclids make good tank mates.

sissy mcguire shwang - 2008-09-23
I once had a zig zag eel and I fed it stuff right, and like it would eat it. Then one night it didn't eat so i fed it more, but it wouldn't eat. So then I called my mommy and she fed it and it still wouldn't eat. Then mommy said it was dead. I got a gold fishy instead. His name is elmo and I feed him hot dogs for food.

harry - 2008-09-10
shocking

Arya - 2008-09-08
I got a big one a few days ago that's about the same size as my fire eel. I had noticed that he had a big stomache. I thought it was dropsy but fortunately it was constipation. I used a handful of epsom salt in a 55G tank and now he's fine. The epsom salt didn't seem to really do anything but a couple days later he got fatter then he pooped it out. Now he's less active than he was when he was constipated (odd?) and he is good friends with the fire eel. I though the fire eel would be mean to him but they lay together under peices of driftwood. I got mine for $10 -- it was worth it. My fire eel was $30 but it was still worth it :-P

carol - 2008-08-26
Hi I have what i believe is a spotted eel, and i love it. I ne ver knew such thing exists until a friend told me. However, i want to know how to stock live shrimps and to breed them ... any advise on what is required to breed river/ghost shrimps?

Amy - 2008-08-19
I have two peacock eels. One stays burrowed in the sand/gravel beneath some rocks, but the other swims around alot. "She" is named Derva and her tankmate is Doug. "He" just waits for the bloodworms to settle, then he grabs a bite. I only see him if I do a water exchange, or replant what he dislodges burrowing. He has grown @an inch in the 2mos. here, so he is eating well, despite the fact that he doesn't swim about,and "dance" like his tankmate.

eric - 2008-08-01
My tire track is 7in. and is my most social and is my favorite fish. He ate blood worms from my hand the second day I had him. I have him in a 55 gal., when he gets too big I'll sell him for big bucks at my local fish store.

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