The care and keeping of a Snowflake Moray Eel

still its in their nature to eat inverts so its a 50/50 shot but if you have alot of rock or a big tank, once you put him in it mite be tough to get it out

i see. thanks

as far as inverts i've had a serpent star, lots of shrimp, hermits, snails, and all those lil CUC dudes and he's never once bothered them, in fact one of my cleaner shrimps used to go inside Konas mouth and "clean" like a dentist, earning himself the name "hermey" like the dentist elf in ruldolph. kona has left all my inverts alone, i just keep him really well fed with stuff so that he takes no interest in them and that seems to be the key thing in keeping them together i think as long as you keep em well fed you'd be fine... I feed kona every other night, like 5 or so silversides just to keep him fat and happy


Tristan, I JUST saw a white spotted eel at one of our crappy LFS, and if he wasn't in such bad shape I totally would've bought him

I think this really applies to all eels, since they are all the same. as long as you keep them fed you should be able to keep them with basically anything...


the only thing kona does thats annoying is he LOVES to dig and try to tunnel his way through ALL my rocks, today he almost toppled my whole setup because he wanted to make his way behind a rock that doesn't have a large enough opening to swim through... he made one and toppled a few rocks (knocked off one of my new mushies >:C)... and he doesnt like my one feather duster to be out, it has to have sand on the rock and the duster sticking out of the sand, otherwise he covers it

cool. i when i get a new tank, im going to put connected pvc pipes all around the bottom before i put sand. you think that would work?

i'm not sure the PVC pipe would work to keep an eel happy... jsut put all the rock on the bottom of the tank before you put in the sand, that should be good... i didn't setup my tank like that so i'm asking for him to topple rocks lol

cool. does he like to change burrows?

my snowflake likes thoes frozen flat packs of krill, i've been giving him about 10 or so whole krill every other day, he seems happy and dosent really mess with anyone in the tank too much.. i have 1/2 nass snails, hermits ranging from about 1/2 inch up to almost 2 inches across the shell, zoas, a clown, a banghi cardinal, and a mandrin...

he's only broken the water's surface 2 times that i'm aware of, once when we were getting the tank(he didnt wanna get put into the cooler for transport, and then once here about a month ago, for no reason, shot up outta his hidey hole, splashed the water's surface, bounced off the inside of the front door of the canopy, and then back into his hidey hole.. weird...

I used to feed him cut up chunks of redfish that i had cought down at the coast, but when i ran out of that, i started with the krill...

very nice write up...

project k do you live on the east or west coast ?

he does not live in either the east or west he lives in TX just like it says under his name

TEXAS. Isn't that a different Country?