Re: ALL CAP'S and stocking cichlids and eels
what's wrong with all capitol letters? is this better? 
<Yes, thank you. Much easier to read... an aspect of "netiquette"... rules of polite society>
am not shouting. ok.
(lol)
can I put a freshwater eel in a 55 gallon tank with a red devil and a green terror.?
<Mmm, not really a good idea... "the" freshwater eels are too slow, blind to compete with such "go-getter" cichlids. Please read here: http://www.wetwebmedia.com/fwmorayeels.htm
Be chatting. Bob Fenner>
Gregg

Eel Won't Go With Cichlids   5/27/06
The pet store recently advised me that I could put a snowflake eel into my 55 gal tank with cichlids.  He is about 8 in long-when I introduced him to the tank the cichlids started to nip at him almost immediately.  He had moved into a rock formation and has stayed put-but the cichlids continue to go in and nip at him  Was I misinformed-should I remove him from the tank (do you think the cichlids will kill him)  Please advise.
< Yes the cichlids will kill him. Take him back for a full refund.>
The cichlids are African cichlids about 2 in long-I think they may be spawning -they are nest building. Thanks, David
< The breeding cichlids makes no difference on the eel. They were trying to eat him.-Chuck>

Why To Research BEFORE You Purchase - A Perfect Unfortunate Example - Not so FW eel... 06/14/2006
I have a fresh water tank and just bought a snowflake eel. It's a 55 gal. tank and I read on your website that they should have at least 1.005 salinity in the water.  
<Please....  learn about your animals BEFORE you purchase them....  I see this going somewhere I don't like....>
My first question is that I have many freshwater fish in the tank like a discus, 2 pictus catfish, 2 paradise gourami, a blue and gold gourami, 2 Plecostomus, African butterfly fish, tinfoil barb, Bala shark and two angelfish.
<A slightly incompatible mix to begin with - that tinfoil will outgrow the tank and should be in a group/school, so will the plecs outgrow the tank (eventually - they'll be fine for a good long while), the Bala is a schooler that should be kept in a group and which will also outgrow the tank (much faster than the plecs), and the discus, a very shy, retiring animal, really isn't compatible with any of these, save perhaps the gourami and the pictus.  It's unlikely to become bold enough to get enough food in this group.>
Will raising the salinity as you say to 1.005 or 1.010 bother or be fatal to any of these fish?
<Fatal....  to all....  The snowflake is entirely incompatible in this system.  Your current animals CANNOT tolerate the amount of salt the eel will need as it grows.  It should, as an adult, end up in fully marine conditions.>
Secondly how do you go about raising the salinity up to this point 1.005 or 1.010 without stressing the fish.
<Forget stressing....  you'd ultimately kill the current inhabitants if you do this.  1.005 for a couple weeks might only damage them, but beyond that will come to a point that they can no longer survive.  Truely freshwater fish are NOT brackish fish, and brackish to marine fish, like your eel, are NOT freshwater fish.  These animals are simply and completely incompatible.>
I saw that you told someone not to exceed jumping .002 at a time. So I guess really my question is can you tell me step by step how to raise the salinity in my tank without hurting my fish,
<Can't.>
and if you could please tell me step by step what I need and how to do this because I will admit I am clueless about this.
<Read....  Research....  And most of all, NEVER buy an animal without first learning its needs and considering whether or not you can realistically fulfill those needs.  These are lives....  living things....  please treat them as such.>
Thank you. I would really appreciate if you could answer this E-mail as soon as possible thank you.
<We answer all as we can.  Wishing you well,  -Sabrina>

Eels and Dragonets do not mix….  10/5/05
Hello I’m asking if there is a chance that my 13-inch white cheeked moray eel could have eaten my dragon goby. <I am not familiar with the common name dragon goby; by any chance do you mean a Dragonet or a Mandarin goby? Perhaps (Synchiropus splendidus)?  If this is your specimen then perhaps yes the eel could have eaten him, as they (the dragonets) are slow moving and nocturnal. As for the eel while they usually rely on crustaceans for food, a Dragonet would have been an easy target.>
I have noticed that my dragon goby is missing, because he usually wanders around the tank. But the pet store that I bought him from said that the moray would not eat a dragon goby and that my fish was probably hiding. <Eels are predators.>  I have searched high and low for my dragon goby with no sight of him not even fins or anything you find as leftovers to a feeding. <If this fish in question is a dragonet, it’s possible that it dies of other reasons. They are notoriously hard to care for with the majority of them starving in captivity.> I think it might have been my moray because of the lack of evidence that my dragonfish would have left like fins scales etc.. I really want to know for sure so I can see about getting a refund on my fish at the store.
<Well, good luck with that. Adam J.> <<Mmm, these are brackish to marine animals, Gymnothorax and Gobioides... don't mix. BobF>>