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Small Spiny Eel Appeal. Each type of spiny eel appeals in its own way. Smaller eels – especially the peacocks with their “eyed” tails -- appeal to community tank owners. They burrow below the gravel with their flexible noses sticking out to sense food.
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Spiny eel - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The name spiny eel is used to describe members of two different families of fish: the freshwater Mastacembelidae of Asia and Africa, and the marine (and generally deep sea) Notacanthidae. Both are s...
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Buy spiny eels for sale at AquariumFish.net, a retail tropical fish store, where buying an eel is fun. ... Zebra Spiny Eel ; Mastacembelus zebrinus 18" ... Fire Spiny Eel. This young 6" Fire Eel is already showing some the deep reddish markings. Pictures and information.
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Mastacembelus zebrinus (Blyth 1858), the Zebra Spiny Eel. Asia; Burma, Indonesia. To eighteen inches maximum length. Rarely half this in captivity. Cond.s: pH 7-7.5, dH to 15, temp. 23-26 C. ... How "buff" is that spiny eel? These fishes can go on hunger strikes for a few to several weeks; obviously of benefit in...
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I’ve never been bitten by a larger spiny eel and guess it will not hurt much, either. In contrast to some African members, the Asian spiny eels don’t have teeth on their palatines and the vomer is toothless, too.>;
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MASTACEMBELIDAE (SPINY EEL) FAMILY; ... Tire track Eel, Spiny Eel, White-spotted Spiny Eel [Pictures] ; Mastacembelus armatus; SYN: Macrognathus armatus; PD: An elongated fish with a snake-like body shape. No pelvic fins are present and the anal and dorsal fins are elongated and joined to the caudal fin.
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Eels / Mastacembelidae / Siamese Spiny Eel; Siamese Spiny Eel; Mastacembelus siamensis | Pictures; ... PD: A fish with a "typical" eel-shape. The back is dark brown while the flanks are light brown. The belly is lighter and there is a fine yellow line extending from the snout to the caudal fin. Five eye-spots can be found...
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Housing for your Spiny eel: ... Links to more spiny eel information: ... Spiny eel's have adapted to a wide variety of water types from soft and acidic, to hard and alkaline. Water quality however is important as they are scaleless and subject to skin disorders.
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A nocturnal predator The spiny eel gives plenty of action to any freshwater aquarium! ... The spiny eel, also called the tire track Eel or the zigzag eel, is similar to the peacock (pictured on the right) and gets along well with their own species or the peacock eel. The entire body of this elongate species is golden...
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Order: Notacanthiformes: Spiny eels ... The spiny eel has a slender, elongate body and a rounded snout that projects beyond the ventrally placed mouth. On its back are a series of short, sharp spines, and there are similar spines preceding the anal fin.
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