eel throwing up

[TX26257]

ok I usely feed my eel some krill or shrimp from the store but today I feed it a silverside for a change of pace which it took to it right away they werent too big so I let him have two but 4-5 hrs later he throw them up whole. Not a to big of a mess the other fish ate them up right away but it did look like he was trying to protect or get them back him self. What do you guys think about this

[Andrew]

He might not be hungry. Give him awhile. My eel hasnt ate for 1 week and eels will do that once in awhile.

[moggyhill]

I'd watch him for other signs of bulemia. If it continues call Dr. Phil.:D
He should be ok, let him rest for a couple of days and see if he is hungry then.

[swegyptian]

My snowflake ate a lunare wrasse, and threw it up a few hours later. I think it just didn't fit too well. He was back to normal within a day.

[Homebrew]

Originally posted by moggyhill
I'd watch him for other signs of bulemia. If it continues call Dr. Phil.:D
He should be ok, let him rest for a couple of days and see if he is hungry then.

Moggy - you crack me up.

TX - What kind of eel do you have (just curious)? I can't imagine my snowflake throwing anything up. That thing seems to eat about anything and keep it down. He occasionally goes on hunger strikes if he doesn't like my "cooking", but other than that, he's a big pig. I guess it's not so surprising though since their snake cousins will often throw up what they swallow for various reasons.

[Confooseld]

Eels, and snakes have no real relation
Eels=specialized fish that breathe water, and look similar to snakes
Snakes=specialized reptiles or lizards with stream lined bodys, and no legs breathe air
Other than both having a back bone there is no real relationship to call them cousins is a blatant misnomer

[moggyhill]

confooseld back here in the east coast we have a much wider view of what a cousin is.:lol:

[Homebrew]

Yeah, around here, cousin can = spouse.

Actually, I should have known better than to use that term since I have many times explained to my kids and guests that it isn't a "snake" (or "nake" as my 2 yo says), but instead a "fish". I was thinking more of the general eating similarities due to body shape. But that could be off base too.

Greg

[moggyhill]

spouse= sister
spouse=mother
the south has all kinds of cousins:p

[TX26257]

well it is a snowflake eel and also it is my spouse

she is go all around the tank looking for food today

[moggyhill]

sooo tx26257 let me get this straight. In Texas your spouse is a snowflake eel who even as we speak is going around the tank looking to be fed? LMFAO:eek2:

[EdKruzel]

Being that it is a Snowflake may be part of the reasoning for regurgitating silversides; Echidna nebulosa are not piscavore and cannot properly digest or receive the needed nutrients from that type of food source.

Only in captivity will a Snowflake eat fish, mostly due to starvation (if that's all you have you eat it), but to be properly fed a Snowflake should receive only crustaceans.
Shrimp, krill (vitamin soaked) and crab meat.

Try speaking with someone from your LFS to see if you can have any of the crabs that hitch hike in with their shipments of LR.

It is the proper food source and gives your eel some exercise while hunting its prey.
The shell will fulfill its calcium needs.

Ed

[Dragon Moray Eels]

TX26257, you mean to say your eel Yak its food up? By most, if your eel rejected to food, it spit it out, not swallowed down and then yak. It isn`t anything i never heard of in all my years. And if your eel is feeding well enough with other foods, leave the silversides out of its diet program for Ed has explained why.
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[marrone]

It's common for a eel to throw up it's food, specially if it's stress out they will do it. You see this alot when you go to purchase an eel at your lfs and they feed it for your, so you can see that it's eating, then they bag it up for you to take home. Alot of the times you find inside the bag that the eel has throw up what it just ate. It does also happen in the home aquariun whether it's from stress or the eel not liking what it just swallow.

It's common and is something that you have to take into account when you house eels as they will throw up food in the tank and if you don't remove, the thrown up food, it add to the load in the tank.

[Dragon Moray Eels]

Hi marrone :) Too have Moray Eels for so many years and never to had witness something as this, i mean that i never heard of such a thing as well in all that time. So conditions would or might have to be so terrible for something like this to happen :( :mad:
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[marrone]

Buddy

This usally happens in shipping, specially if the eels was just feed. If it mail order they would feed the eel so it usally wouldn't happen but if you go the lfs they'll feed the eel for you to see that it's eating and then from the stress of taking it home it will throw-up what it just ate as will alot of other fish. In the tank this will happen if it has alot of tank mates and it's stressed out or if the food, that it just ate, isn't right and then it will throw up the whole thing, usally with slime around it.

[Dragon Moray Eels]

This usally happens in shipping, specially if the eels was just feed.
For it happening only from shipping, still then the people i dealt through the years were either lucky in their dealings or they were doing business with the right people for i never had to witness this, but i am however quite surprised in just hearing about it for the first time.
and then it will throw up the whole thing, usally with slime around it.
Gosh, I would have to say that im glad that i never witnessed such a thing.

If you remember well that i had two sets of Eels. The Dwarf Golden Morays with a pair of H. Dragon Morays. And sense some three years ago or better I put together the idea of two Eel tanks as one system, a 70 gal tank with a 130. And in time, i will have four pairs/sets of Eels for now i the two dragons morays, two goldentail morays, with the dwarf golden moray. And right now im looking to make up my mind on another dwarf moray pair. Here is the list im too choose from:
Gymnothorax melatremus
Anarchias similis
Gymnothorax robinsi
Uropterygius makatei
Gymnothorax fuscomaculatus
Anarchias cantonensis
Gymnothorax cephalospilus
Monopenchelys acuta
Gymnothorax atolli
Anarchias allardicei
Gymnothorax herrei
Anarchias euryurus
Gymnothorax castlei
Gymnothorax marshallensis
Uropterygius genie
Enchelycore nycturanus

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