New garden eels

[olemiss reb]

Ordered 6 garden eels, 2 were doa, the rest immediately vanished into the tank. three of the four popped up today. Eating cyclopeeze and ova.

excuse the goniopora, it's still ticked about being moved
http://i934.photobucket.com/albums/ad181/jstari78/garden2.jpg?t=1304364995

65 gallon tank, shared with 4 pipes, 2 mandarins, 2 clowns
http://i934.photobucket.com/albums/ad181/jstari78/gardentank2.jpg?t=1304365695

mandarins eat frozen/ NLS pellets, june/july will be their one year mark in the tank

pipes eat ova/cyclopeeze, attempt to eat mysid

[matt randazzo]

Wow thats a nice tank set up! Sorry bout the two that didn't make it:( Good luck with your new eels tho :)

[olemiss reb]

eels are not as skittish and allow pics. 7 garden and 2 splendid

all but two are now eating hikari mysid


http://i934.photobucket.com/albums/ad181/jstari78/gardensss.jpg?t=1305656718

http://i934.photobucket.com/albums/ad181/jstari78/splendid.jpg?t=1305656718

[fullmonti]

How did you become interested in garden eels? Good to hear they are doing well, always heard they are hard to keep. How deep is your sand bed?

[jhentr]

Cool 'a-typical' fish tank (pipes and garden eel)! Wish I had a DSB to try some. Good luck and post more pics. Glad they are eating prepare food!

[Greg 45]

I wish my sand bed was deeper these guys are a great addition.
LOL with them

[LukFox]

Wow the splendid is super cool!

[olemiss reb]

How did you become interested in garden eels? Good to hear they are doing well, always heard they are hard to keep. How deep is your sand bed?

I've always wanted them but never had an appropriate set up for them. Solved that problem by building this tank specifically for them. Sand bed ranges from 10" down to 3", with an average of 7

These two moved to the front glass
http://i934.photobucket.com/albums/ad181/jstari78/g22.jpg?t=1306025080
http://i934.photobucket.com/albums/ad181/jstari78/g24.jpg?t=1306025080

[Angel*Fish]

Omg I love garden eels. Good luck with them! If you have more pics or video I can look at them all day :D

[olemiss reb]

best vid the blackberry is capable of, eels enjoying some ova
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PLLs8RG46-U

[chrisv]

That is a really cool setup!

Could you share a bit more about the details of the tank? what do you use for lighting that enables you to keep that acro colony on the bottom of that deep tank? What filtration are you using?

I'm sorry if there is already a build thread...if you have one, could you please link us?

[Angel*Fish]

They are so cool! What an awesome tank you have :)

[olemiss reb]

Lighting is 3 AI blues maxing out at 80%. 4 mp 10s synced on nutrient export. Filtration is nothing special, 2 filter socks changed every other day, pm skimmer, phosguard, chaeto. 2gallons/day water change using seachem salinity.

The AIs are primarily on the right side of the tank over the coral.
http://i934.photobucket.com/albums/ad181/jstari78/aitop222.jpg?t=1306798040

[lowfi]

update?

[Monkeyfish]

Awesome tank. GL with the eels. I thought about adding a few to my 180, but have some pretty active fish and was afraid they'd hide till they died. I'll just live vicariously through your tank ;). More pics please!

[Robert1969]

Those are very cool!