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I think I know the answer to this, but any chance my docile (towards fish) snowflake eel will leave ornamental shrimp alone? I have a 125 gal. with gobs of live rock and I want some pepermint shrimp as well as a pair of banded corals.
 
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IMO? About a snowflake's ;) chance in Hades he will leave them alone.

Snowflake eel specimens are by and large "live and let live" re their fish companions, but not always. I have archived on our site (www.WetWebMedia.com) a few instances of "Snowflake treachery". Such is definitely not the case with crustaceans. Echidna nebulosa's diet IS mainly crabs and shrimps in the wild. They will assuredly eat yours in captivity. Other non-vertebrate livestock is in no danger.

http://www.wetwebmedia.com/snowflakemoray.htm
 

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All crabs and shrimps will be a expensive Dinner Mancrab I have had and still have a Snowflake eel.They will eat and tear apart any crabs and Shrimp.I lost several large Crabs in shells I heard a knocking noise in my Fish room and found my Snowflake eel tearing my large shelled crab to pieces. :cry:
 
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I was afraid of that...I really like him in that tank, but I want some cool inverts in there. Maybe I'll have to start a fish-only tank, as I saw a striped grouper of some sort (white and brown striped) that I may not be able to resist. I have read about their reputation around shrimp.
The snowflake was housed at the lfs with a polka dot grouper which he got along well with. The lfs guy said that eel was formerly in a tank to which he added some unquarantined fish. All fish died, so he drained the tank, added FRESH water and BLEACH. He ran this through the system for two months, and one day this eel popped his head out from under a rock! I know this seems implausible, but he seems genuine.
Anyhoo, thanks for the advise.
 

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mancrab":2ro8h7xs said:
The lfs guy said that eel was formerly in a tank to which he added some unquarantined fish. All fish died, so he drained the tank, added FRESH water and BLEACH. He ran this through the system for two months, and one day this eel popped his head out from under a rock! I know this seems implausible, but he seems genuine.
Implausible is not the word I was thinking.






Impossible... Yeah, that's the word.
 

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I've had a snowflake and it lived with a cleaner shrimp and got along fine, then I had a large Zebra Moray who used to get punked by a coralbanded shrimp.
 

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