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View Poll Results: What should I do with the EEL? | |
Keep it
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Karma, take it back to the LFS
|    | 6 | 33.33% | |
Keep it untill it gets to big and then take it back
|    | 7 | 38.89% | 
03-30-2008, 08:36 PM
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#11 (permalink)
| | Gigas Clam
Join Date: Jan 2008 Location: Columbus, Indiana Age: 23
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If you don't want it in the long run take it back now IMO. The longer you keep it, the longer you will push the limits and try "one more addition" to see how things go. Catch him now and get some credit, and save some money on your next purchase!!!
Still a pretty cool find no matter what you decide to do!! _________ 55 gallon slowly growing reef aquarium, 85 lbs. live rock, 2 1/2" sandbed, 1 False Percula Clown, 1 Sixline Wrasse, Tetratec PF500 filter, 2 110 watt URI Super Actinic VHO actinics, 2 250 watt metal halides with Reef Optix 2 reflectors powered by Blue Wave 3 ballast, born 1/3/08 My Tank Thread My Tank Video  | 
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03-31-2008, 03:28 PM
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#12 (permalink)
| | Gnarly Old Codfish
Join Date: Sep 2003 Location: Silverdale, Washington Age: 58
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When and if you catch it, let me know how you do it.
Have one in my main tank I would like to return to LFS.
Rarely see it and worry about what it is eating...  _________ AG "125," AquaC EV 180, 30 gal sump, "SCWD", 80 lbs LR, CoralSeaLife "Moonlite" Hood, PFO 250W HQI Mini-Pendant (SPS HQI 14000k bulb)
12 Gallon NanoCube - 24w stock PC 50/50 light "...nothing good ever happens fast in a reef tank, only bad things happen fast..."
- MIKE PALLETTA - (Davis Family Reef Aquarium - Home Page/Reef Log) (Best Photos of 2008!) | 
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03-31-2008, 03:36 PM
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#13 (permalink)
| | Clown Trigger
Join Date: Jul 2007 Location: Tatamy, PA Age: 15
Posts: 2,026
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could try a bucket with some meaty foods in a media bag and place in a bucket with lid and small hole in lid. like 3-5" wide and see if it goes in....... _________  | |
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04-01-2008, 02:50 PM
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#14 (permalink)
| | Plankton
Join Date: Mar 2008 Location: Maine
Posts: 20
Karma: 17
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I thought I could catch him a big piece of squid. He just about jumps out of the tank at feeding time so baiting will bring him around, the problem will be keeping him caught. I have a big net, but I think he (I say he, but I can’t tell) will jump out. The catch could be great fun. We really do like him, but he just about looses his skin when he smells food, so Coral Reefer’s comment about moving rocks around is a concern of mine. He is about 6” long now, how big will he get and how fast will he grow? I heard 24 to 37” long. How wide would that make him?
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90 Gallon, Cascade 1200filter, Seaclone100Skimmer, AquamedicUVlight 9w, 2 jets, OrbitE520wCompact Fluorescent, 125lbsof LR, 2cleaner shrimp,
Atlantic anemone, GMandarin, Saddleback butterfly, Snowflake eel, 2BGchromis,3 Ocellaris clowns, Lawnmower Blenny, Flame scallop, CC Starfish, Snails, Hermit crabs, and a small Sea slug | |
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04-06-2008, 12:11 PM
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#15 (permalink)
| | Feather Duster
Join Date: Apr 2008 Location: flint, michigan Age: 28
Posts: 216
Karma: 65
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I say keep it and make your tank an aggresive lion/eel reef tank | |
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04-06-2008, 12:21 PM
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#16 (permalink)
| | Flamingo Tongue
Join Date: Jan 2008 Location: vancouver, canada
Posts: 116
Karma: 134
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i say stick to your original plan for your reef tank. If the eel disrupts your ultimate plan or causes you to rethink your design then id say take it back or start a whole new tank for the eel. _________ 29 g biocube First tank ever 
25 lbs LR
20 lbs LS
1 oceanic protein skimmer
Filter In Middle Chamber: sponge+bioballs+Seachem biofiltration media+2 bags of activated carbon all under a drip tray.
10,000k power compact
actinic pc
3 moonlight LED
1 domino damsel
1 peppermint shrimp
2 scarlet hermits
3 hermits
3 spiny astria snails
2 turbo snails
2 fighting conch ( aquacultured) | |
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04-06-2008, 03:20 PM
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#17 (permalink)
| | Flamingo Tongue
Join Date: Mar 2008 Location: Staten Island, NY Age: 29
Posts: 101
Karma: 21
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I'd say keep it... it wouldn't be bad karma because it is expected to get hitchikers... you just got a surprise one from the higher end of the spectrum!
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72g Early-Stages Reef...
20g planted freshwater Guppy Tank | |
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04-06-2008, 03:23 PM
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#18 (permalink)
| | Clown Trigger
Join Date: Jul 2007 Location: Tatamy, PA Age: 15
Posts: 2,026
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A surprise that eats other surprises, lol..... | |
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04-11-2008, 01:59 PM
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#19 (permalink)
| | Astrea Snail
Join Date: Feb 2008 Location: Lynnwood, WA
Posts: 71
Karma: 48
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I would say do your research. If you still want him then set up another tank for him and go on with your reef tank. If not trade him in for credit. Either way he is a hitchhiker. That means he is yours  | |
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