banded snake eel

jeeperstrudie · Apr 29, 2008

A friend of mine just took her tank down. She gave me about 100 lbs of rock complete with lots of hair algae (yuck) and all of her fish.

I have a banded snake eel - (is this thing reef safe?) it gives me the creaps
yellow tang about 4 to 5"
sailfin tang about 5 to 6"
koran angel about 5"
clownfish about 3"

and two others that I have yet to identify.

Can anyone tell me if the banded snake eel is reef safe? I have all of them in quartine until I can figure out what to do with them and what I want to keep and what I don't.

barav17 · Apr 30, 2008

Eels don't bother corals , But they add a large bio load and knock over corals.

jck3120 · May 1, 2008

He is most likely coral safe from that standpoint, but and invertibrates such as shrimp I would say will be dinner. May also eat small fish if it can catch them, most snake eels I have seen will not eat fish but depending on the size of the eel/fish I wouldn't trust him. Post a pic if you can...

mr softy · May 1, 2008

eels

eels are reef safe as they dont harm corals but will nock over caorals and desimate clean up crew if you feed them thourgly to saturatiom three times a week it "should" be all good

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