What eels are reef safe ?
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Junkie
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All eels are "reef safe" as in none will eat your corals. The main problem aside from eating fish or crustations, is that they produce a lot of waste and can foul water fairly quickly and can easily knock over rocks and coral. Niether of which is too appealing in a reef setting. There are eels that eat fish and those that eat snails and crabs. If you are looking for a large spieces, I'm pretty sure zebra moreys won't mess with your fish. I have seen people put small snowflakes in thier reef tanks as well.
emerald525
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I have a medium sized snowflake eel in the 150 gallon reef and so far he is doing fine. I know they can get big and I would have never put him in there except I broke down my agressive tank. He leaves the cleaner shrimp alone as well as the other fish. I'm hoping since I got him when he was tiny and fed him with tongs that he won't start thinking the live fish are food.
secretreefer
**MAD PHANTOM SCIENTIST**
+1 GOLDEN DWARF MORAYS i got 2 in my tank. no problems. but they love to swim around when feeding my LPS and because of their movement it makes the food go bye bye off LPS...
caudill187
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I had a snowflake eel in a reef tank but had to remove him because he was chasing my picasso clowns around the tank. I don't think this is typical behavior for these eels and they don't see very well so he wasn't very good at catching them. I have had an Hawaiian golden dwarf moray in my display for several months and he has behaved perfectly - he has eaten well since a day after introduction, no escape attempts, leaves the other inhabitants alone, etc...... If you are looking to purchase one, try Les at Wet Pets Hawaii.
emerald525
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This is true but this eel has never shown interest in escaping. I had one tiny little one in the 150 gallon and had it covered and double meshed the outflow and put mesh all over the tank and the sucker still managed to get in the overflow and all the way through the pump and into the skimmer and was shredded.
. The one I have now I have had when he was tiny and never even tried to escape and he has had chances when I have forgotten to remove the eggcrate.
WesF
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zebra morays are supposed to be one of the more "fish friendly" eels however I just happened to stroll into the LFS one day right after the zebra in the display tank finally decided to bite the giant Cinnamon Clown in half:cry:
aalvarado87
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thats crazy... my GDM is small i couldn't imagine him biting a fish in half maybe a small fish like a firefish... For the most part he chills my tank even goes down by his burrow and checks him out...
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