I am setting up a 90 gal tank for african cichlids and i want to put an eel in there with them and an electric blue jack dempsey does anybody know if it will get along.
2007-03-04 12:14:38 · 4 answers · asked by mastergamer254 2 in Pets ➔ Fish
I have to agree with sue, your cichlids even though they can withstand salt to some degree are not brackish water fish.
There are many types of fresh water eels however. I will warn you, if you are putting it in with your cichlids, you may not have any fish left.
Americian fresh water eels can be found at spill ways in most lakes. fishing for them at night are your best chances.
Also, here we have a whole sale fish market. They always have live eels for food in an aquarium. I bought one and told them I needed to keep it alive not cleaned for food. He was only around $2.99. He was about 2' long but they had them in all sizes. My daughter and I brought him home and put him in one of my fresh water tanks.
He lived about 8 years....and ate just about everything in the tank (what fit into his mouth) no matter how much I fed him.
2007-03-05 04:27:18 · answer #1 · answered by danielle Z 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
African cichlids don't live in brackish water - they need hard water but it is not brackish.
A blue jack dempsey is a soft water fish & shouldn't be mixed with the Africans.
There are eel like freshwater fish known as spiny eels but they are not suitable companions for mbuna as their meat/worm based diets will cause digestive problems for the herbivorous cichlids.
There are combinations which could just about work in a tank as small as yours and incorporate a Tanganyikan spiny eel but you really need more experience and haps or Tanganyikan cichlids instead of the commoner mbuna.
Cichlids from different lakes or regions don't mix.
2007-03-04 12:37:57 · answer #2 · answered by sue 6 · 1⤊ 1⤋
There are no fresh water eels. The eels that can be found in fresh and brackish waters are salt water species that have come up-river to spawn; and their young before returning to the ocean to mature. I have caught young eels (elvers) in fresh water streams and kept them for a while in fresh water tanks, but they don't generally last long nor make good aquarium pets. Also, you will need to keep a (very) tight lid on your tank, with no openings, as they are notorious for jumping out through the smallest openings and ending up dried out on the floor.
2007-03-04 12:29:08 · answer #3 · answered by Stanley T 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
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2007-03-04 13:51:20 · answer #4 · answered by lon_e_lectricit 1 · 0⤊ 1⤋