The Freshwater Moray

[fishfishfish]

i remember finding a post about a freshwater mray eel and i was cruising aquabid and i think i found one.is it the eel?
http/www.aquabid.com/cgi-bin/auction/auc...&1172713216
i know someone who wanted one very bad.

 

[mlawson]

That looks like it.
But a differnet species to the one I saw.

 

[gallum8]

its a close species but yet still diferent and very expensive 900 bucks...sheesh i would never buy a fish for that much off line i would like tos ee it in person to make sure its free of defects

 

[gallum8]

would any of you spend 900 bucks on an eel off line? just because its super expensive doesn't mean their policy for a 5 dollar fish applys to the eel...

 

[InaneCathode]

That price is for 30 eels, not one.

 

[fishfishfish]

ah.i wondered too if that was for one.
people spend thousands on say stingrays or arrowana.

 

[CFC]

It is highly unlikely that they are freshwater morays, although that species (Gymnothorax polyuranodon) is sometimes found in freshwater lakes in nature all the specimins collected for the aquarium trade are collected from esturies and river mouths which are brackish enviroments.

I have one in a brackish tank with an SG of around 1.010 (about half strength sea water) which is thriving.

 

[fishfishfish]

any pics?

 

[CFC]

Nope, all i ever see of it is a little head poking out of a rock once in a while