has anyone kept a ribbon longer than a year?

[leakytank]

They just won't eat.... color fade....getting skinny then die.
Failed twice, another try?

[snorvich]

They should be left in the ocean. Stop killing them.

[BangkokMatt]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=14021764#post14021764 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by leakytank
another try?
After 2 failures - I would just leave it at that.

[philter4]

I have kept one for 3 years in the past, it ate blue damsels. The one I had was an exception and until they are figured out as to what triggers a feeding response and we can get them to eat available foods, I only can say they should be left to people who want to research better ways to keep them.

[snorvich]

I suspect that a feeding response is triggered by smell since most, if not all eels do not see all that well.

[Fin Mike]

I have kept one for 3 years in the past, it ate blue damsels.

Talk about your champagne and caviar tastes. $5 every couple of days had to get old after a while.:p

[philter4]

You could be right, but it was fed native blue damsels so it wasn't a smell that it recognised. It ate blue beau gregories and blue reef chromis, but it ignored bicolor chromis and yellow 3 spot damsels so I think it had more to do with the color then smell. Either way mike is right, expensive taste.