Brackish water snowflake eel.

[Joey17]

I'm gonna get one for my new tank. I just wanted to know if anyone has any experience with them?

 

[Japola44]

never heard of them sounds interesting... got any pics. Sorry im not much help haha

 

[Japola44]

i googled them and it appears the only thing that showed up was a saltwater eel? are you sure its brackish?

 

[Joey17]

Yeah, here http://www.petsolutions.com/Freshwater+Snowflake+Eel-I-59400-I-C-40001812-C-.aspx .

 

[Japola44]

they get to be 60cm! get a big tank! 8O

here is a good site about them
http://fishinthe.net/html/fishguide/fishguide_fish.php?FC=3&nl=1&nt=2&genus=Gymnothorax

 

[flamingonhot]

60-75 gallon tank minimum.

Treat them like a sw eel but well you know...in fw lol.

Nothing much to say other than a salinity of at least 1.007-1.010

 

[Joey17]

Cool, thanks.

 

[Mudfrog]

This eel is brackish when young then becomes full fledge saltwater when an adult. I was going to get one but I did not want the commitment of being required to do a saltwater setup when needed.

75 Gallon is bare minimum.

 

[Legacy]

What he said. Even adults might do ok in mid-high range brackish for as long as a year. The problem is your eel wont be able to leave and swim back into saltwater whenever it chooses to. I've found that keeping brackish water fish that tolerate a vast range of salinities are difficult to keep happy.

 

[flamingonhot]

Actually this has been dicussed MANY times. From most reports they do not need full sw.

They are brackish really but move into saltwater from time to time for breeding or whatever case.

You can keep them in a higher salintiy just fine. They can tolerate fulll sw though if you really want to do that.

Some guy has had one in bw for 5 years now, pretty awesome set up and he raises the salinity every once in a while.

 

[Blazeherd2306]

Yeah, fishbase says they are freshwater, brackish, and marine. I'm assuming they prefer brackish.