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The Fire eel is actually quite peaceful, especially when it comes to young eel’s. Keeping it with small fish like Tetra’s and Guppies is, however, a bad idea since these will be considered prey. You can keep your Fire eel in a community aquarium with medium sized or large cichlids like Jack Dempsey’s or Green Terrors.
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Mastocembelus Erythrotaenia – Fire Eel. The bottom of your aquarium should have a fine substrate without any sharp edges since sharp edges can cut into the eel as they like to dig into the sand. Also, try to have hiding places like rock caves or bogwood. The fire eel also likes plants to swim through.
Use live food, such as feeder fish, mosquito larvae, Cyclops, bloodworms and brine shrimp. Many Fire eels will accept flakes and catfish sinkers in captivity, but live food should always be included in their diet.
Mastocembelus Erythrotaenia – fire eel is not a true eel, but an extremely elongated fish with a distinctive pointed snout and underslung mouth. It is part of a group of fishes called spiny eels that also includes tire track and peacock eels. The group gets its common name from the many small dorsal spines that precede the dorsal fin.
At Wholesale Tropicals, we treat all our customers with outstanding customer service and we are always friendly, welcoming and more than happy to talk to our customers about what they want or simply just to talk about our fish. We have been consistently voted in the top 10 aquatic retailers in the country for the last 20 years. In 2010 we were voted top aquatic retailer in the South of England by readers of Practical Fish Keeping Magazine.
Here at Wholesale Tropicals, we have an excellent variety of tropical and freshwater fish available to choose from in our friendly and welcoming fish store on Bethnal Green Road, London. Established for over 50 years, we are a family run aquarium fish shop that caters for all, from the novice to the expert, and free help and advice is given anytime.
