Conger Eel and white ribbon eel

[Duke4life]

Was just curious if anybody owned one of either? If so could you please post a pic.

Was at my 1 of my local LFS and came a cross an eel marked as a Conger, but by all the pictures it appears to be a white ribbon eel. I know nothing about these but it did bury itself in the sand after they located in the tank, and was white/albino.

I did not buy, nor thinking about, just would like to help get the correct name if it is wrong. Doing research on Congers there just seems to be no way due to the size they get.

[Megistos]

If it has pectoral fins, it's not a ribbon eel.

[Duke4life]

Are there any eels that get labeled as "Conger" that are found in the hobby?

[rssjsb]

Sounds like what's often sold as a "ghost" eel.

http://marinefishdirect.com.au/ribbon-eel-ghost-stopidhon-brummeri.html

[Sk8r]

Ghost eel. Beautiful, especially by actinic light. Active swimmer in twilight and dark, ate 300.00 worth of fish I thought were too big to fit into his mouth, which is wider than it looks. He was so pretty I thought about giving up on other fish and just having him---but I decided at 300.00 a week I couldn't afford to feed him.

[rssjsb]

Just curious, what did it eat? Their skulls look bigger than a snowflake, and SFEs can eat surprisingly big fish.

[Duke4life]

The eel I saw looked like a ghost minus the solid vibrant white line, buried itself in the sand, and was a nice thickness.

[Sk8r]

Blennies, gobies, dartfish, damsels, possibly a wrasse, never knew on that one. Skipped the mandy, which is incredibly slimy. Took me a bit to figure what was going on, and longer to figure how to extract him from a coral reef. I had to unbuild to get him.

[rssjsb]

That's awful.

[Megistos]

http://www.leszoosdanslemonde.com/gal2data/albums/poissons/actinopterygii/anguilliformes/muraenidae/uropterygiinae/uropterygius_concolor/limoges_uropterygius_concolor_2008_1.jpg

Like this?

Or this?
http://www.hycfw.com/UploadFiles/Knowledge/2011/7/201107081649169012.jpg

If so, sounds like Uropterygius concolor.

[Duke4life]

Can that vibrant white line on the ghost look duller? If so I think we have a winner...

[Megistos]

Yeah they can be duller. Usually they are a fairly bland brown, actually, but white ones do pop up occasionally. The vibrant white on the fins is also probably at least somewhat dependent on tank lighting.

[ToddBell]

I had a white ribbon eel for a long time before giving him to a friend with a bigger tank. Mine got to 3 feet long and was a very active swimmer. He would hand feed on krill, silversides and pieces of shrimp every other day. When he was hungry he would come completely out of his hole and swim up and downy the glass till I came up to feed him. Then he would go back in his hole and put his head out while he waited for me to feed him. Never touched any of my fish or inverts. By far my favorite creature I have owned.