Zig zag eel

[Mightaswell]

Hi all. I got a zigzag eel monday. Its 3-4 inches long. I have it in a ten gallon quarantine tank. I have not seen it eat anything. I have tried freeze dried bloodworm, freeze dried baby shrimp and sinking shrimp pellets. All of these where sold to me at the time of purchase of the eel. I usually medicate fish in quarantine but only after I've seem them eat.
All it does is hang out all day in my sponge filter tho I do occasionally see it in the tunnel or 2 caves or wrapped around the bottom of said sponge filter. I'm pretty attached already and want it to eat. I even named it already which usually doesnt happen. And if it does it's usually after quarantine not before.

 

[Mandy627]

Hi all. I got a zigzag eel monday. Its 3-4 inches long. I have it in a ten gallon quarantine tank. I have not seen it eat anything. I have tried freeze dried bloodworm, freeze dried baby shrimp and sinking shrimp pellets. All of these where sold to me at the time of purchase of the eel. I usually medicate fish in quarantine but only after I've seem them eat.
All it does is hang out all day in my sponge filter tho I do occasionally see it in the tunnel or 2 caves or wrapped around the bottom of said sponge filter. I'm pretty attached already and want it to eat. I even named it already which usually doesnt happen. And if it does it's usually after quarantine not before.

All my eels eat blood worms, live black worms and sometimes live night crawlers. I'm not sure freeze dried is the best option for an eel, and they wont eat pellets that I have ever seen, maybe if they are very hungry they will. What size is the tank, and what are the parameters?

 

[Mightaswell]

I have wax worms on hand for my bearded dragons as occasional treats. Would it hurt to try one?

 

[Mandy627]

I have wax worms on hand for my bearded dragons as occasional treats. Would it hurt to try one?

I dont see how it could hurt? Never tried but seems like it's worth a shot! I hope he likes them!!

 

[Mightaswell]

Either way I have to get crickets tomorrow so I'll see if the lfs has any of the things you suggested.

 

[Mandy627]

Either way I have to get crickets tomorrow so I'll see if the lfs has any of the things you suggested.

They should, and if they dont then tubifex worms might work too since he is small. (They are super teeny). The blood worms I get in frozen cubes.

 

[Mightaswell]

I'm sorry I didn't read you wanted parameters.
It's a ten gallon quarantine tank.
Ammonia 0
Nitrite 0
Nitrate 10
Also I got it to eat 2 wax worms from tweezers. It fought to even eat them cuz it's so small. But it did. Barely fit in its mouth.