Freshwater Tiger Moray Eel Care Guide | Gymnothorax Polyuranodon
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 7 ก.พ. 2025
- Here is my complete and updated care guide for the freshwater tiger moray eel, also known as leopard moray eel or by their scientific name Gymnothorax Polyuranodon.
I've had my freshwater moray eel for about 1 year and 10 months now and she has been doing great. She started off in my fluval roma 200L but has now since moved to my fluval roma 240L.
I'll talk about the tank size, hardscape, plants, what do they eat, tank mates and loads of other tips and tricks. My main aim is to answer the question: How to look after freshwater moray eels.
Hopefully this will be the only video you will need to watch on this moray eel.
I'm basing the information on the experience I've had so far with my tiger moray eel. I'm in no way an expert, I'm simply sharing what worked for me.
Let me know if you have any questions and let me know what you think!
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He’s absolutely right about the escape proof tank. I had a quarter size hole in my lid wasn’t really thinking for some reason about that one spot. He got out.
@@jeffcardwell1800 Sorry to hear that, it’s really weird how they love to escape even though they can’t survive outside of water
@@ScoobzNPetz so I actually found out why they try to escape. Because they can actually survive out of water for a couple days so long as they stay damp. So they’re known from trying to jump from body of water to body of water if the place are at, doesn’t suit them Hiding spots or whatever. they’re really interesting. Actually, I did upgrade everything though made sure nothing bad can happen anymore and I did get another one. But yes, it was very sad. I actually found him and he was still alive. I got him back in the tank and he survived for a little bit but overtime it was just too much for him.
@@ScoobzNPetz the little guy I got now is doing just fine and have plans on upgrading him overtime to 180 gallon
@@jeffcardwell1800 Oh I see! Thank you for letting me know, that's really interesting! And I'm glad your new one is doing good, let me know how it goes
Can we get an update on the eel now
Joined the tiger eel squad today yoooooo 💖
@@petshopcafe Nice! Welcome to the squad 😁 Let me know if you have any questions 👍🏾
i have been interested in the moray eel ever since ive seen yours but ive recently decided to just get a peacock eel. great tips though!
Thank you! Peacock eels are great too and they get along fine with morays so you could still get a moray in the future 😁
I finally got 1 🙌 well actually 2 😆 was buy one get one half off , so far they both are doing amazing
@@FishTankFrank13 Oh nice!! I was thinking about getting a second one, let me know how it goes!
@ 😆 I also have um I the 100g with ghostknife and a ropefish , the bigger eel and the rope fish hang out together it’s sooo 😎
@ Oh nice!! Yeah my eel used to chill with my Ropefish too when they were still in the same tank
Amazing video thank you so much! I really hope to be able to get my hands on one of these awesome animals at some point :3
Thank you! 😁 if you’re near London, wholesale tropicals in Bethnal Green had 2 last time I went to visit, if you’re based somewhere else maybe try online
From what ive seen in mine and from the internet, expect them to grow roughly an inch or 2 a year, my 3 will only eat bloodworms and frozen krill, they are not a huge fan of prawn but eventually im going to get them to, they are in a 125 with rams and even guppies and mollies as well without any aggression to the fish, but they will fight each other over food
Nice!! It’s surprising how gentle and chilled they are 😅 and have you tried soaking the prawns in some water with cut up garlic? My moray loved it, yours might too
What kind of shrimp do you use to feed her? Just frozen ones from the store or do you buy other kinds?
I buy the shrimp fresh from the fish market and then freeze them when I get home. She also eats the normal frozen shrimp from the supermarket but personally I prefer to feed her the fresh ones
Okay, thank you so much! @ScoobzNPetz
@@ToothyTu No worries, anytime!
Love it.
Thank you 😁
That happened to me. My tiger moray was hiding in a fake cave the was hallow. I took some sponge in stuffed it all in the cave so now my eel can't go inside of the hollow part.
@@AHLive215 ahh that’s a good idea! I’ll try the sponge if I choose to put the cave back into the tank
Will theese eventually need saltwater?
Based on my experience and my research I don't believe so, but I should mention that there are people online who say the opposite so I'd say do as much research as you can from different sources and then make a decision based on your findings. Thats what I did and mine is doing great so far.
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What growth rate have you seen in the last (almost) 2 years? I read a study that showed 4 of them in a 1,200ltr tank grew between a 21cm and 26.5cm growth in one year.
It’s difficult to say as I see my eel everyday and never really noticed the growth. However when I look back at old footage, I’d say she has at least doubled in girth and has around a 50% increase in length. Keep in mind I’m guessing here. She spends 90% of her time in her cave and even during feeding she only comes out half way.
I’d say watch my first video of my moray, I have a playlist on my channel specifically for my moray, and compare that to my latest posts of my moray. In my shorts section I post regular feeding videos and in some she comes out almost fully so you can get an idea. My bad that I can’t give you exact numbers, I’ll keep in mind to keep a note of things like this
26 degrees?
@@Fishy_pro-w6v That’s what I keep my aquariums at. To be clear that’s 26C which is around 79F
@ScoobzNPetz oooohhhh ok cool
im planning on getting the fluval siena 88 gallon. i am from germany tho i am not sure if ill get my hands on a tiger moray, but do you think i get along for 3-4 years in this tank with a medium sized one? tank is only 110cm long but got 55 in depth an 55cm in height!
Oh cool! I grew up in Germany 😁 and the Fluval siena is a beautiful aquarium. If you can get a tiger moray, it should be fine in the siena for a while. They spend most of their time in their cave. I’d say as long as it can fully stretch out if it wants to you’ll be fine.
@@ScoobzNPetz okay, thank you, i think i need to get one then, such cool creatures! i wish i could live in the uk i think it is where u are, can speak german a bit? :D
@@maasterchief I hope you manage to find one! And yeah I live in the UK now and yeah I can still speak German 😁 aber ich kann nicht mehr so gut schreiben lol
@@ScoobzNPetz nice hahaha, do u recommend living in the uk tho, if u can still remember how germany was?
@@maasterchief Yeah I still come to visit, I was there in November 😁 I’d say both places have their pros and cons. The UK has more opportunity for things like YouTubing and that but Germany is a much nicer place to live.
There’s a lot more crime here compared to Germany especially in London
What fish do you have in with her ? Sorry if you mentioned it.. I'm commenting early in the video😂. Wondering if I could keep a moray with bichir
I went through a few tank mates in the video and I’m gonna make a specific video about tank mates as there’s a lot to talk about. How big is your bichir? I tried to introduce a bichir and it seems like my moray ate it but the bichir was tiny. Id assume if they’re same/similar size they should be fine
Have you heard of Octonauts?
Bro we talked a couple of weeks ago and you gave me some type of Instagram or Facebook account where I could send you a video of my tiger moray eels can you shoot me that again I erased that video so I don't have that anymore.
Yeah you can either send it to my pets Instagram @ ScoobzNPetz , if you lose this comment you can just go on the about section on my channel, it has all my social links there 👍🏾