zebra eel

RazorBlade · #1 07/04/2007, 02:40 PM

Do zebra eels (Gymnomuraena zebra) eat a lot?

larserik · #2 07/04/2007, 02:48 PM

My zebra eel eats 3shrimps 2 times a week. Tihink hi is about 40 cm.. Hi is verry cool. Live together whith a lots of cleaner shrimps whitout any problems..

ndas2976 · #3 07/04/2007, 06:00 PM

You should feed a Zebra moray 2-3 times a week, and feed to satiation.

justinl · #4 07/04/2007, 07:40 PM

do not feed to satiation! lions are know to beg and beg for food, even if they have a full stomach. feed too much and food may have time to actually rot inside their stomachs and give them bacterial infections... this is mentioned somewhere in the "lionfish info sheet"

only feed the amount of a single silverside per feeding for a full grown zebra lion.

TheSaltwaterGuy · #5 07/04/2007, 08:05 PM

Umm, they're talking about a Zebra Eel.

justinl · #6 07/05/2007, 12:37 AM

duuhhhhhh. my bad. wow i need to learn how to read.

at any rate i still dont believe in feeding until an EEL is about to burst either. there are some eels who learn to recognize food sources (you) and will beg even after they are "full".

ndas2976 · #7 07/05/2007, 06:27 AM

I feed my zebra 2-3x a week to satiation using a feeding stick. I place a piece of krill on the feeding stick and place the stick right by his cave. I usually tap the rock where his cave is with the stick and he knows it's feeding time. He usually takes about 5 pieces of krill than returns back to his cave when he is done eating. I find that with my zebra, that once he is full he stops excepting food from the stick and just goes back to relaxing.

I know that my zebra will eat again the next day, because when I feed the other fish he smells the food in the water and comes right out of his cave searching for the food. But i resist his begging and only feed him like I stated above.

LisaD · #8 07/05/2007, 07:35 AM

my zebra eel will feed to satiation, but my Brazilian dragon moray will not easily stop. this eel is half the size of the zebra, but will eat 4-5X as much! It starts to look like an overstuffed sausage casing, about to pop.

jda · #9 07/05/2007, 12:26 PM

I fed my fish every day and my zebra would eat when it felt like it - about every other day. It always seemed pretty good about not eating when it was full.

Of course, it would eat more at the end of one of it's hunger strikes.