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We have 7 eels and 2 pipefish. We have found with 7 they act more like a group a community, they are up more, move up higher, have less fear and are far more active then when we just had 3. The one pipefish loves to be around the eels, I think he thinks he is an eel. The other one hides and...

Some video I took of our tank upgrades, not sure you can see all the garden eels at the same time but different views, we are working on getting more corals. One pipefish likes to hide, the other is out and about. The hairy corals are being rescued out of our main tank that has a hair...

Well against my wife's wishes I will post a few pictures. She will be working on taking more throughout the week (as well as cleaning it up) and after we get some coral in there. But I wanted to get some pic's in there. Just don't judge the quality! The acclimating has gone well, the...

Update: We have been busy with our garden eel tank, we are in the process of upgrading our lighting to a PC style system. We will mount it on the ceiling so we will not overwhelm the eels. We added a piece of vida rock (synthetic ceramic rock made in UT for reef tanks in custom shapes) so we...

When are you planning on making the move? Let me know, I am free all day Saturday and half of Sunday.

Our plan would be to get some PC lights (as I think anything higher would bother the eels) and a skimmer and add some softies in there. What I would absolutely love to do is add a pair of pipefish. That would be my dream. Our fear would be with other fish that every time they swam by they...

Leslee - We can add coral but first would need to get a better light. We are using just a basic fish only light. We need to get some PC's in there for better corals. We have talked about putting softies in. We have talked about a fish too but the eels are so shy that we are afraid we would...

My wife would love to get more. We just wanted to take it slow and see how they respond before adding more. No reason to overload ourselves. Thx for the great comments and support.

Thx - the tank has been setup for 4 months and we have had the eels for 2 full months now.

We are longtime lurkers and decided to finally make a post. This is our 55 gallon garden eel tank. Enjoy! Our 55 gallon garden eel tank: Garden eels have been a passion of my wife ever since discovering them on a diving trip in the Caymans. We had thought keeping them in a home aquarium would...