Im looking into buying a eel.

[lynixlol]

I want to buy a hardy eel that stays within 2feet or less. Im looking into snowflakes, skeletors, and golden morays. Can someone tell me which is the easiest eel to care for? I plan to put it in my 30 gal for now and move then in 4 months to a much larger tank. I plan to buy the eel 5 inchs to 12 incches

 

[Master Shake]

green wolf eels stay relatively small compared to other eels, but they arent really an ell they are in the blenny family i believe for some reason

 

[lynixlol]

But out of the 3 i listed which is more hardy

 

[cryptics]

All eels are pretty hardy. What else is in the tank? The skeletor and Golden will be much more violent than the snowflake. As a rule of thumb eels with a rounded head are more peaceful than the classic morray head. All eels though will eat anything that will fit in it's mouth whole. I've had Zebras and snowflakes i could hand feed and a Tessalata that would try to take fingers off if I got too close.

 

[bigcapct]

Yellow head moray .Mine is a beast

 

[lynixlol]

I just have corals, cleaner wrasse, cleaner shrimp, and goby pistol shrimp pair

 

[Imbarrie]

Check out an engineer goby.
They get up to a foot and are cave dwellers.

 

[lynixlol]

Why are golden dwarf morays so expensive! Found one for 270. And are morays resistant to ich or immune. This is due to a slight ich in my reef

 

[fishman1069]

I wouldn't add ANY new additions if you have ich in your tank right now. Get rid of the ick first!

 

[Imbarrie]

I wouldn't add ANY new additions if you have ich in your tank right now. Get rid of the ick first!

Lol

 

[jcs11236]

either you have ich or you dont.. take care of the problems you have first before adding anything

 

[Imbarrie]

+1

But want to add, you either have visible signs of ich or you don't.
Ich is inevitable even in completely healthy systems. And it is possible we all have it at an unseen level.
The goal is to keep your livestock healthy where they don't catch it.
And as stated above, don't add anything until you are at that point.

 

[lynixlol]

Yeah i only have my goby, and cleaner wrasse still alive from my ich invasion. They never got it and are doing good. Its been 2 weeks since all my fish died. I heard eels are very resistent to ich

 

[44santababy]

I have a skeletor eel in my mixed reef tank with loads of small fish and inverts. He is 19 inches long and doesnt harm, touch anything in the tank. He allows my fire and skunks into his mouth to clean. If he attempts to leave the rock work my yellow tang literally swats my eel in the head and the eel goes right back into the rocks. My skeletor eel is 100% reef safe and awesome looking rare eel. I got him from DD. It is my favorite and is a crustacian eater. Anyone who tells you different does not own one and has NO experience with one. They dont have teeth and if they do i cant see them when his entire mouth is open. He is blind as a bat and relies on smell. I only feed shrimp with selcon and he seems happy. He CANNOT catch a fish...period!! Nor does he even try. I WISH he would eat my sally lightfoot crabs, but like i said he is 100% peaceful. I would recommend this species.