I'm not sure myself. Kind of looks like a starry night spiny eel, like the 2nd pic on one of the previous posts. The first pic didn't look quite like it, but the second one pretty close.
I have 2 fire eels myself, and they eat like pigs. One thing you might notice is that if they are in a tank that's cycling, they won't eat. At least not very much. Mine didn't. But now that my tank has cycled, they are pigs. I was feeding then 2 cubes of blood worms every other night, but now, they come out begging for them every night at about 9:30, just shortly after the timer turns the lights off. I go up to the tank, and they are dancing around by the front of the tank, begging me for food. They also go after the red wigglers I put in the tank that have burrowed in the gravel.
I have a medium-sized artificial rock with a cave going through it, and of course it's hollow in the middle. That's where my eels made their home during the daytime. Occasionally they will burrow in the gravel, but mostly will go under the gravel and into the hollow rock formation and turn around and stick their heads out the hole they made going in.
I've had them for about 5 months I think, maybe 6, can't exactly remember for sure, they were about 4 inches when I got them. Now they are about 9 inches each. I didn't get them both at first. I had 1, and while my tank was cycling, he didn't look too good. Wasn't eating at all, and had a film over his eyes. During that time I decided to get the 2nd one, as they had gotten another one at the
LFS. he seemed to do pretty good, and thought the first one was a loss. But shortly after, I started introducing a little aquarium salt, as that's when I had learned about some of the benefits while cycling. So now I have 2 very healthy, active fire eels, in a cycled tank. Will stay in this tank til I completely cycle the new tank which I'm getting in about 2 weeks. The 55G will also just be their new temporary home til I get my 90G or bigger in the near future.
