#tiger moray

[i-give-you-a-fish]

best fish to turn into a horrifying leviathan for dnd?

This cutie patootie

You get a Fangtooth Moray

Enchelycore anatina

[respect-the-locals]

🐠 Daily Fish Fact: 🐠

The Dragon Moray Eel (aka Tiger Moray) is chiefly nocturnal; because of this and its preference for cryptic habitats, it is seldom seen. It feeds primarily on fishes and small cephalopods. It inhabits coral and rocky reefs at depth range from 26 to 300ft. This eel is characterized by its narrow, curved jaws, vivid red stripes on the head, and elongated tubular nostrils.

[i-give-you-a-fish]

I just got my wisdom teeth out, and they let me keep the top two. Yippie. I also was partly awake so I remember most of it.

can I have a toothy fish please?

You get a Fangtooth Moray

Enchelycore anatina

[i-give-you-a-fish]

do you have a favorite type of eel?

You get a Fangtooth Moray

Enchelycore anatina

[aquariuminfobureau]

A true freshwater moray

Tiger or manytoothed moray eels, "Gymnothorax" polyuranodon, are so far the only moray eel species verified to habitually inhabit freshwater environments as adults. Of course their entire life cycle includes a spell in the ocean, which appears to be necessary to anguilliforms, but this is currently the only moray species known to spend its adult life in freshwater.

Adult eels of this species inhabit almost solely coastal freshwaters, both still and moving, so it is considered to be a true freshwater moray, and not an estuarine form that visits upstream. Although it inhabits estuaries also, it is about twice as common in pure freshwater, and avoids strongit brackish salinities. Technically, their life cycle is catadromous, meaning they begin life out at sea, before migrating upstream with age.

Despite the fearsome reputations of morays, the tiger moray has evolved as a specialized, probing forager of small prey, which are probably arthropods. As a consequence, they are safe sharing an aquarium with surprisingly small fishes, because their teeth are small, relative to their own jaws, and their heads have similarly become small relative to their overall length.

The aquarium pH ought to be 7 to 8, and their diet should be meaty morsels, provided in suitably cut sizes. Because these eels are found far upstream in natural environments, the addition of aquarium salt is entirely unecessary, although the low end of brackish salinities, such as 1.005, should not harm these eels, either. As adults, they do not dwell in the sea, so they should never be regarded as marine fishes.

However other details of their biology and care, do match those of the better known marine.morays, such as their nocturnality, and their need to frequent hiding places by day. Temperatures should be 24 to 28 degrees, and they are certainly flourishing in aquariums, cared for as I have described above.

[varanusindicus]

Testing out the camera on my new phone, and Pizza was being nice and photogenic. The newer one is still pretty shy, but he's been tentatively named Breadstick.

[varanusindicus]

Pizza is a bit of a goof. So is the new boy, but he's still being shy so there aren't many good photo opportunities.