Splendid Garden Eel

Here's a link to King Neptune's salt water acclimation process for his mollies: http://www.captivereefs.com/forum/ma...mollies-20299/

ahh, thats pretty recent.

i did some reading last night, and im gonna try and take 7 to 10 days to get them between brackish and saltwater, then im gonna add a brackish plant.

Just an FYI, it's not good to feed saltwater animals freshwater animals. Don't feed them brine shrimp, feed them a good saltwater flake food, cyclops etc. You need to stuff them full of vitamins and minerals that saltwater animals need.

Yeah I dont see it eating any flakes any time soon. Hard enough to get it to eat frozen foods.

Plus arent cyclops frshwater crustaceans anyways?

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Originally Posted by dputt88

Yeah I dont see it eating any flakes any time soon. Hard enough to get it to eat frozen foods.

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No I mean the guppies, feed the guppies that food. That way he is getting what he needs when he eats the guppies.

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Originally Posted by dputt88

Plus arent cyclops frshwater crustaceans anyways?

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Yes they are but, they have a saltwater vitamin and mineral profile.

Ahh, ok. Will do. I thought you telling me to try to feed the eel flakes and my first thoughtwas yeah im notwasting mytime with that, lol.

What a super cool guy! I love the plants you have him in, a true little "garden" :big_grin:

So just an update. It stopped eating frozen food some time ago, just seemed to lose interest. It did however begin to show interest in flakes although wasnt too fond of them. I started 3 large cultures of live foods, rotifers, another with 2 types of pods, and the third just has tigger pods. All 3 cultures is doing great, producing a lot of pods. The pipe loves eating all of them too. While establishing these cultures the eel became more interested in flakes, over the past month, well almost. for weeks now it has been going crazy for flakes, funny i never thought id see that happen.

All in all its doing great, every once in awhile it will change spots, prolly once a month. But its still new.

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Originally Posted by dputt88

So just an update. It stopped eating frozen food some time ago, just seemed to lose interest. It did however begin to show interest in flakes although wasnt too fond of them. I started 3 large cultures of live foods, rotifers, another with 2 types of pods, and the third just has tigger pods. All 3 cultures is doing great, producing a lot of pods. The pipe loves eating all of them too. While establishing these cultures the eel became more interested in flakes, over the past month, well almost. for weeks now it has been going crazy for flakes, funny i never thought id see that happen.

All in all its doing great, every once in awhile it will change spots, prolly once a month. But its still new.

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once a month only shows u heaving this for a month did u have it before u posted it up ?