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| Green
Wolf Eels! |
These are the Green Wolf Eels!
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| Male
and Female |
This is the female Green Wolf
Eel.
When I first introduced her to the
male (and I had no clue it was male and female, let alone which was
which), she would get a very pale shade of green, and the male would
turn dark. He was aggressive towards her. But since she's layed her
first batch of eggs, she's the dark one and the more aggressive of the
two.
This is the male Green Wolf Eel.
The male seems to have shorter fins than the female. His face is also
longer and more pointed.
This is the female with her first batch of eggs.
She keeps them behind
a rock in the back corner of the tank. Obviously I moved the rock for
this photo. She is VERY protective of her babies, and always stays
right with the egg mass. The male stays on the other side of the tank.
If he gets too close to her area, she attacks him. She doesn't eat much
while the egg mass is in the tank. All her energy is concentrated on
protecting the eggs.
The male would usually eat up to 5 or 6 goldfish every feeding. (Yes,
that black mass below the goldfish is the female.)
The female would usually only eat up to 3, maybe 4, goldfish.
She
prefered ghost shrimp. But recently, she's been eating more and more
goldfish. She'll eat about 4 to 6 goldfish each feeding. And her
feedings have gotten up to every other day, and sometimes everyday. |
| Babies |
Since there is not much
information out there about the care of baby
Green Wolf Eels, I went ahead and left the egg mass with them when I
transfered them from the main tank to the new one.
Here's another photo of the baby Green Wolf Eels.
That's about as close
as I could get to them and still have a focused picture.
The egg mass.
This egg mass contains probaby about 500 eggs in about a 2 inch
diameter mass. |
| Journal |
With there being so little
information about the breeding of Green Wolf Eels out at the time, I
decided to keep a journal of the experience.
My journal can be found here:
Breeding
Journal |
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Support |
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