My Spiny Eel Eats Blood Worms!

[Scott MacAdam]

Well... it has been almost 2 weeks now but I FINALLY got my white spot spiny eel to eat something!!!! he was out of his cave and sitting in the sand and the local walmart finally got some blood worms in, suggested by some other members, so I grabbed a few and gave reached in (to help fend off the JD) and he actually ate them.... I'm shocked... I thought I had tried EVERYTHING up untill now...anyway, he gobbled them down like crazy...he even bit me at least a dozen times while hand feeding.... so I fed it quite a bit....(about 4 pinches of bloodworm if that helps at all...., same way you would measure a pinch of salt....) and then a little bit of flake , which for some reason he has been rejecting since I got him.....

so the queston is, how much is too much..?

can bloodworms be a staple diet?

and is the spiny eel one of those fish that will eat it's self to death?

If so, how much and what should I be feeding it on a daily basis...(flake, blooworms, frozen shrinp, tubiflex is what I have)

for reference, it is about 6-7" long....

Thanks Again! , for pictures, check my sig. (jd/eel tank)

 

[Dorkhedeos]

a 7 inch long spiny eel should be able to take a whole cube of bloodworms easily. try getting some prawns from the supermarket and feed it chunks of that too, it might like it. you can try to switch it off to sinking carnivore pellets if it likes the prawn by taking the juice of the shrimp and/or bloodworms and soaking the pellets in that. the red liquid from frozen bloodworms works like a charm

 

[Scott MacAdam]

my blood worms are freeze dried and in loose in a little bottle...not cubes with juice lol... o well. i can figure out those proportions though... I'm assuming that the bloodworm and the tubiflex cubes are about the same size? I have the tubiflex cubes here so i'll try to match somehow..