[idrum]

OK - so I have 72g and 7g reefs. Also have a 25G tall laying around (with an Eclipse) that I used to use as a Q tank (dont worry, never had to use copper).

Thinking about setting it up as a little FO (maybe add 20 lbs of live rock for added filtration). Definitely DO NOT want to convert to reef (cost of lights/maintenance/ridiculous costs to stock).

So I'm thinking about adding maybe 3 little fish (firefish/a fairy wrasse/clown) - just had a brainstorm. What about doing something like an eel and one fish. Any recommendations - never kept an eel before.

Looking for 'expert' opinions - that is - if you could start a 25g from scratch, what eel and one or two fish would you add?

Thanks

[Tarek]

I'm not sure if I would put any sort of eel in a 25 gallon tank. From what I've seen, eels tend to grow very fast, and even though they're not very active most of the time, I think that it'd be a bit too confining a tank for him to have to roam around in. I bought a baby snowflake moray for my 46-gallon tank about 9 months ago. At the time, he was about 8" long. He's now almost 14" long.

Hope this helps.

-Tarek

[FishKid]

You can try for a few garden eels, www.exoticfish.com has them. I believe, that they are speciallized feeders though, not sure. HTH

mark

[Penguin]

I wouldn't recommend getting a garden eel. They're usually very short lived in captivity and require a very deep sand bed (>6 in.)

[chromis]

I agree w/ Penguin, garden eels are not ideal aquarium inhabitants.

[Bamm Bamm]

I have a 25 gallon tall and heres what I have on it..Now this is a reef though..Lighting three 65watt LOA compact flouresant's, one 15wat actinic03 NO. 30lbs of fiji LR, about 40-50 of LS..a seabae anenome, pearl coral, green frilly mushrooms, red mat polyps, 2 green open brains, Favia coral, yellow star polyps, purple mushrooms, and about 10 toadstool leather frags,.. Inhabits are 1 tiger goby, 2 tomatoe clowns, and a coral beauty.. everythign get along great.. the tank is unbelievable the corals are all doing awesome much better than in my 25..Oh and I have a cpr back pak II modified with a maxijet 900, a rio 90 behind the rocks, a rio 600 and a a peguin 402... I also wouldn't get an eel for a tank this size..Dan

[the_blue_tuna]

With the messy eating habits of Eels you may find it difficult to maintain water quality in a tank of this size . Also most any fish that would fit in the Eels mouth will end up there , therefore the fish you add with the Eel will not really fit the tank either.