Awesome update video. The eels look great. I am setting up my 180g tank for my baby tessalata. He is growing fast but I hope he can live in there for awhile. Happy fishkeeping.
Thanks mate. I assume that your 180 is a 6x2x2? If that's the case he should be fine until he's around 3 feet, maybe bigger if there aren't many tankmates, especially aggressive ones.
Wow you have a beautiful eels. Very glad you made this video because I really want to be an eel owner one day. Im looking through the specifications for species like these and this looks like it would be too involved for me, which is okay. Glad I found this video before I got any further into my research
Awsome tank and tank mates I love it - Question I have a 15 pound bumble grouper - and 18 inch emperor red snapper and 2-3foot long green morey eels - whats your filtration like on your tank bcz i have nitrate issues i cant get down - i know its a heavy bioload and i have 40 pounds of bio media -but i wan to keep my fish happy -- Thanks
More hiding places, no bullies in the tank and lights not too bright will all make them come out all the time except the Viper Moray. Those just barely ever show themselves which is why they are rare to find in the pet trade.
I have a total of 3 tanks and one important thing about fish keeping is to take things slow and steady which is why I don't post as often as other channels as I try to avoid making too many frequent changes. I do have a new video coming soon about some fun saltwater oddball fish that nobody seems to have been making videos of that I will be putting into my 270g tank this week 🙂
Hey, I love your videos. I’ve been keeping moray eels for about 5 years now. And for the past 5 years, I’ve kept around 15 moray eels. Currently, I have a tessellata, undulated, japanese dragon, and a hawaiian dragon moray eel. All of them are between 28inches~32inches. A store near my house holds a green moray that is 30-32 inches and I’ve been thinking about getting him, but I know green moray eels are aggressive. Tessellata and green moray are two of the most aggressive eels and I’ve had two other tessellata in the past that were so aggressive I needed to remove them. Your methods are the exact same methods that I’ve been using in the past to keep multiple moray eels and I actually have other methods too. But, I also had experiences where none of these methods work. Based on your experience with keeping two green moray eels, do you think green moray eels are aggressive eels and do they get more aggressive as they grow larger? Lastly, if you were in my situation do you think it will be fine for me to bring in a green moray home. * tank size is 500g and I do have friends that will take the green and tessellata once they outgrow the tank
Thanks for the detailed information. If you wanted to try and add a Green Moray, you would probably need to take everything out of the tank and completely redesign the interior so there are no established territories that eels can claim and everyone needs to find their own spot again. However, prepare for everyone to go on a hunger strike for a while. Your eels will probably be fine with the Green Moray since they are used to be living in a community but if the Green Moray has been kept singly there is no way to anticipate how he would react with other eels in the tank. Green Morays also grow faster than most eels so he will likely become the biggest eel in the tank within 12-18 months. He will also get much larger and thicker than everyone else you currently have except the Tessalata so the Dragons can potentially be at risk in the near future. 500g is usually fine for a single Green Moray but if you design the tank in a way that provides an abundance of hiding places then you may still be able to keep at least the Tessalata with the Green Moray. In the end, if it was me I would probably not risk it unless you can return him back to the store if needed.
@@fishdiary thank you for your reply! I do know that they get pretty large. I am mostly concerned about how aggressive they are. I do agree with everything you said. With redesigning the tank completely and that adding another eel could be a risk because I don’t know how the green moray will react. It all comes to if I do want to risk it. * I love your viper moray eel. I’ve been looking for one for 4 years, but still could not get one. I hope you post more videos too. Simply feeding video would still be fun to watch
So behavior wise the Green Morays are actually very chill unless I wait too long in between feedings. They eat by far the most food which is likely why they grow faster than the rest. My water reaches up to 84 degrees fahrenheit in the summer which increases their metabolism which makes them hungrier and eat more. If they are kept fed then I really have no problems with them and the other eels and them with each other. As I mentioned in my video, most aggressions are the result of stress so try to remove or minimize all factors that could cause stress. In your case, adding another big eel could impact the water quality quite significantly. Many people simply test for nitrates but completely forget about the accumulation of toxins. An eel is covered with mucus to protect them from parasites. This mucus is slightly toxic but generally harmless to themselves or other eels when in the ocean as it gets diluted and washed away constantly. In an enclosed habitat like an aquarium with multiple eels this toxin can reach high concentrations quite quickly as it isn't removed by protein skimmers or filter socks. This will first impact any non eel habitants you have in the tank but will eventually impact everyone including eels if not contained which will stress them out and cause aggression. I run a large carbon reactor as well as a reactor full with Seachem purigen to filter this out and make sure to change the Carbon frequently and to recharge the purigen once depleted. Also, this video of me putting a Green Moray into an established eel community tank may help you: ruclips.net/video/D29w5yTJvFU/видео.htmlsi=ahnyEz-ldipsQHxh
@@fishdiary Thank you so much for the information. Never really thought about the toxins because my eels rarely get stressed out. I've had few sharks in my tank (which I recently gave away to a public aquarium) and had no issues with water quality, so it would be fine even if I get the green moray since the sharks are gone. My undulated moray also eats a lot and I mean A LOT. I am sure green moray eels would do so too and since green moray eels get larger than undulated morays, I am keeping in mind what kind of a large species I'm dealing with. As for my past experience, all my four moray eels are absolutely fine with new eels coming in. I've never seen any aggression from those four and any aggression between the eels came from newly introduced moray. As a fan of your videos, I've seen the video where you added the caribbean green moray. I don't think you changed the layout of your tank or used any methods to introduce the new green moray eel to the other eels, which was pretty interesting. The new green moray eel lived alone in a small tank at the store and was introduced right away to the other eels and barely had any problems with the other eels. Especially the new green moray eel being a larger green moray and showed no aggression actually gave me hope that green moray eels are not as aggressive as I thought. I will definitely consider your thoughts and I hope I make a good decision.
Sounds great, keep me posted! The reason I didn't change the layout was that it was actually pretty new and also the tank is large enough and already had more hiding spaces than needed so I was confident the new Green Moray would easily be able to claim at least one spot for himself without having to fight somebody over it. None of my existing eels were using any of the flower pots for example. As far as the Green Moray from your store, try to find out where it came from. The reason I got a second one was that my first one came from Brazil so he is generally darker but I wanted a neon green looking one which are the ones from Florida/the Caribbean. Unless you don't care too much about the color. Good luck!
Hello, thanks to your advice and suggestions, i finally have a gymnothorax dovii and a zebra together in a 150g so thank you! But i had a question to ask since you keep the eels in the pipes, do you clean the pipes? And if so, how? I have noticed that my pipes with the tessalata has been really dirty with detritus so is there anything i can do without having to remove the huge 4 inch pipes without almost getting by the tessalata haha
I addressed this problem by plumbing a pump to the side of the aquascape to blow out the pipes. I am talking about it in this video at this mark: ruclips.net/video/gmy_WKKHzME/видео.htmlsi=2aG842AM35XriliY&t=1069
@@fishdiary although apparently they do grab the odd Mono if hungry enough, very awesome though aren’t they, Love the tank such a good idea arranging the piping in this way 👍
Yes! The monos started disappearing at random. I will stick to smaller damsels going forward but still big enough to not get eaten by the new Remora I just added 😊
Awesome update video. The eels look great. I am setting up my 180g tank for my baby tessalata. He is growing fast but I hope he can live in there for awhile. Happy fishkeeping.
Thanks mate. I assume that your 180 is a 6x2x2? If that's the case he should be fine until he's around 3 feet, maybe bigger if there aren't many tankmates, especially aggressive ones.
Tesla makes fish now too in addition to cars?
Love it - keep it up brotha ! What happened to the magnet shark fish guy ?
You mean the Remora? I added him in the video following this one.
Great set up i have freshwater moray eels and i would like to try this set up. Can u tell how many pieces to used thanks
I believe I used around 30 connectors in total.
Wow you have a beautiful eels. Very glad you made this video because I really want to be an eel owner one day. Im looking through the specifications for species like these and this looks like it would be too involved for me, which is okay. Glad I found this video before I got any further into my research
You can always get a species that maxes out at 3 feet or less (snowflake, yellow head, white eyed and other morays).
I like the moray eel
Awsome tank and tank mates I love it - Question I have a 15 pound bumble grouper - and 18 inch emperor red snapper and 2-3foot long green morey eels - whats your filtration like on your tank bcz i have nitrate issues i cant get down - i know its a heavy bioload and i have 40 pounds of bio media -but i wan to keep my fish happy -- Thanks
Thanks for watching! I am covering almost all of my filtration in this video:
ruclips.net/video/syC2My5Vxn8/видео.html
Refugium removes nitrates
cool tank
i guess the same principal applies even when the animals are larger huh ❤
more hiding places = more time they spend out in the open
i have a planted reef in a 25 gal
(upgraded from pico reefs)
red macros only, green corals only, "orange" fish only 🎉
mandarin dragonets 🥹
More hiding places, no bullies in the tank and lights not too bright will all make them come out all the time except the Viper Moray. Those just barely ever show themselves which is why they are rare to find in the pet trade.
tank is looking great can't wait to see an update on it in the future, are you working on any other tank projects?
I have a total of 3 tanks and one important thing about fish keeping is to take things slow and steady which is why I don't post as often as other channels as I try to avoid making too many frequent changes. I do have a new video coming soon about some fun saltwater oddball fish that nobody seems to have been making videos of that I will be putting into my 270g tank this week 🙂
Hey, I love your videos. I’ve been keeping moray eels for about 5 years now. And for the past 5 years, I’ve kept around 15 moray eels. Currently, I have a tessellata, undulated, japanese dragon, and a hawaiian dragon moray eel. All of them are between 28inches~32inches. A store near my house holds a green moray that is 30-32 inches and I’ve been thinking about getting him, but I know green moray eels are aggressive. Tessellata and green moray are two of the most aggressive eels and I’ve had two other tessellata in the past that were so aggressive I needed to remove them. Your methods are the exact same methods that I’ve been using in the past to keep multiple moray eels and I actually have other methods too. But, I also had experiences where none of these methods work. Based on your experience with keeping two green moray eels, do you think green moray eels are aggressive eels and do they get more aggressive as they grow larger? Lastly, if you were in my situation do you think it will be fine for me to bring in a green moray home.
* tank size is 500g and I do have friends that will take the green and tessellata once they outgrow the tank
Thanks for the detailed information. If you wanted to try and add a Green Moray, you would probably need to take everything out of the tank and completely redesign the interior so there are no established territories that eels can claim and everyone needs to find their own spot again. However, prepare for everyone to go on a hunger strike for a while. Your eels will probably be fine with the Green Moray since they are used to be living in a community but if the Green Moray has been kept singly there is no way to anticipate how he would react with other eels in the tank. Green Morays also grow faster than most eels so he will likely become the biggest eel in the tank within 12-18 months. He will also get much larger and thicker than everyone else you currently have except the Tessalata so the Dragons can potentially be at risk in the near future. 500g is usually fine for a single Green Moray but if you design the tank in a way that provides an abundance of hiding places then you may still be able to keep at least the Tessalata with the Green Moray. In the end, if it was me I would probably not risk it unless you can return him back to the store if needed.
@@fishdiary thank you for your reply! I do know that they get pretty large. I am mostly concerned about how aggressive they are. I do agree with everything you said. With redesigning the tank completely and that adding another eel could be a risk because I don’t know how the green moray will react. It all comes to if I do want to risk it.
* I love your viper moray eel. I’ve been looking for one for 4 years, but still could not get one. I hope you post more videos too. Simply feeding video would still be fun to watch
So behavior wise the Green Morays are actually very chill unless I wait too long in between feedings. They eat by far the most food which is likely why they grow faster than the rest. My water reaches up to 84 degrees fahrenheit in the summer which increases their metabolism which makes them hungrier and eat more. If they are kept fed then I really have no problems with them and the other eels and them with each other. As I mentioned in my video, most aggressions are the result of stress so try to remove or minimize all factors that could cause stress. In your case, adding another big eel could impact the water quality quite significantly. Many people simply test for nitrates but completely forget about the accumulation of toxins. An eel is covered with mucus to protect them from parasites. This mucus is slightly toxic but generally harmless to themselves or other eels when in the ocean as it gets diluted and washed away constantly. In an enclosed habitat like an aquarium with multiple eels this toxin can reach high concentrations quite quickly as it isn't removed by protein skimmers or filter socks. This will first impact any non eel habitants you have in the tank but will eventually impact everyone including eels if not contained which will stress them out and cause aggression. I run a large carbon reactor as well as a reactor full with Seachem purigen to filter this out and make sure to change the Carbon frequently and to recharge the purigen once depleted.
Also, this video of me putting a Green Moray into an established eel community tank may help you:
ruclips.net/video/D29w5yTJvFU/видео.htmlsi=ahnyEz-ldipsQHxh
@@fishdiary Thank you so much for the information. Never really thought about the toxins because my eels rarely get stressed out. I've had few sharks in my tank (which I recently gave away to a public aquarium) and had no issues with water quality, so it would be fine even if I get the green moray since the sharks are gone. My undulated moray also eats a lot and I mean A LOT. I am sure green moray eels would do so too and since green moray eels get larger than undulated morays, I am keeping in mind what kind of a large species I'm dealing with. As for my past experience, all my four moray eels are absolutely fine with new eels coming in. I've never seen any aggression from those four and any aggression between the eels came from newly introduced moray. As a fan of your videos, I've seen the video where you added the caribbean green moray. I don't think you changed the layout of your tank or used any methods to introduce the new green moray eel to the other eels, which was pretty interesting. The new green moray eel lived alone in a small tank at the store and was introduced right away to the other eels and barely had any problems with the other eels. Especially the new green moray eel being a larger green moray and showed no aggression actually gave me hope that green moray eels are not as aggressive as I thought. I will definitely consider your thoughts and I hope I make a good decision.
Sounds great, keep me posted! The reason I didn't change the layout was that it was actually pretty new and also the tank is large enough and already had more hiding spaces than needed so I was confident the new Green Moray would easily be able to claim at least one spot for himself without having to fight somebody over it. None of my existing eels were using any of the flower pots for example. As far as the Green Moray from your store, try to find out where it came from. The reason I got a second one was that my first one came from Brazil so he is generally darker but I wanted a neon green looking one which are the ones from Florida/the Caribbean. Unless you don't care too much about the color. Good luck!
AWESOME video bud!!! Keep up the great work.
Thanks! 🙏 Will do!
This is so awesome. Thanks for sharing 👌🔥💯✌️
Thanks for watching 👍🤝🙏
Hello, thanks to your advice and suggestions, i finally have a gymnothorax dovii and a zebra together in a 150g so thank you! But i had a question to ask since you keep the eels in the pipes, do you clean the pipes? And if so, how? I have noticed that my pipes with the tessalata has been really dirty with detritus so is there anything i can do without having to remove the huge 4 inch pipes without almost getting by the tessalata haha
I addressed this problem by plumbing a pump to the side of the aquascape to blow out the pipes. I am talking about it in this video at this mark:
ruclips.net/video/gmy_WKKHzME/видео.htmlsi=2aG842AM35XriliY&t=1069
I recommended you to raise the fangtooth moray eel. Cool one
I am raising all of them 😁
I’m surprised the little critters living in the tank, don’t get eaten 😳?????
The invertebrates? They clean the eels. The damsels are too small and the monos are too fast.
@@fishdiary although apparently they do grab the odd Mono if hungry enough, very awesome though aren’t they, Love the tank such a good idea arranging the piping in this way 👍
Yes! The monos started disappearing at random. I will stick to smaller damsels going forward but still big enough to not get eaten by the new Remora I just added 😊
Impressive beasties
aren’t they 👍🥹
Why does "Eel" feel so wrong when compared with "eel"? It's just capitalization. Sorry, that's all I have to contribute.
😂 I agree 👍
TMI on the Diarrhea 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂But, I think Moray Eels are cool
The brown algae turned green so I guess it now looks like vomit 🤮🤮🤮