Fire eel!

Cirrus

Cirrus

Arowana blogger
This guy came in at 18 inches a couple months ago. I got him hand trained to eat cut up market prawn and now he eats a lot. He has put on two inches in length since I got him I think.

I had to do some moving around of fish due to some aros coming and so I unceremoniously dumped the eel into my 300 gallon with my pair of BD/Leos and trio of large Geophagus winemilleri. The links below are for videos of feeding the eel in a 90 gallon last week and another I shot right after I dumped the eel in the 300 gallon tank. It turns out that large fire eels and rays get along great! I would highly recommend the combination, very entertaining. I also recommend you give the eel some kind of tube or drift wood hiding spot as they love to stay concealed with just their heads popping out; kind of remind me of morray eels that way.

Feeding video:
https://www.dropbox.com/sh/5oun6nqjfx7zt49/MPuA-L2LRH/VIDEO0055.mp4

Fire eel released in a 300 gallon with a pair of BD/Leos and a trio of Geos:
https://www.dropbox.com/s/focn1z274tz11d1/2013-02-20 21.02.46.mp4
 
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Jumped last night from my Marineland 300. I knew fire eels like to try and sneak out the top of tanks but thought I had a secure system. This is the second fish I have had jump from my glass 300. On the other hand I have never had a fish jump out of any of my plexi tanks (which have a way better rim/lid design). Now I regret having moved the eel out of the 90 gallon plexi, especially since it was supposed to ship out tomorrow. Sorry Mark.
 
Cirrus said:
Jumped last night from my Marineland 300. I knew fire eels like to try and sneak out the top of tanks but thought I had a secure system. This is the second fish I have had jump from my glass 300. On the other hand I have never had a fish jump out of any of my plexi tanks (which have a way better rim/lid design). Now I regret having moved the eel out of the 90 gallon plexi, especially since it was supposed to ship out tomorrow. Sorry Mark.
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Not again!
 
Yeah, again. Actually this is the third fish I have lost (one ray, one aro, and now one eel). I am now going to roll up my sleeves and do something I should have done a while ago - I am going to build out a new canopy system. I will take some photos and share the design.
 
awesome. much needed huh! lol.

i find acrylic tanks to be very secured. ive had a few fire eels jump out of the tank! luckily they weren't dead when i found them on my floor lol
 
its all ok theo, i feel bad for your loss,i still have a fire eel he just doesnt eat much and is growing slow ,thought maybe yours would grow faster than my current one
 
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