10 gallon for my brother

[sstanle4]

Ok. I just set my brother you a 10 gallon tank and he wants a small snowflake eel and a his wife wants a chocolate chip starfish. Would this be ok if they both were small? I know the eel with grow to big for the tank but the LFS told me he could bring it back and swap when it got to big for his tank.

 

[bskerrichard27]

10 gallons not a good idea what will they do when they grow if they survive ? Maybe the starfish foe a while but I could not do that to the eal ....

 

[bskerrichard27]

Sorry I forgot to add people get atached and don't bring um back

 

[Nu-Nu the eel]

Noooo, a snowflake eel needs 50 gallons, not 10 get him a clown and a goby and some shrimp, that is much better for a 10 gallon

 

[joy13]

A snowflake eel is a beautiful fish that is for sure however they are escape artists and in a 10 gallon tank there are several ways they can get out including the filter. If he wants something really neat that can live in a 10 gallon how about a pistol shrimp and goby. I have them in a 24 gallon and really it is the footprint of a 10 gallon about so there would be plenty of room. They are so much fun to watch I am very lucky mine are usually out front and center.