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I just restocked my oscars old 45gal
I've got
2 needle fish
1 african butterfly
1 yellow-tail spiny eel
1 african brown Knife
1 4-line cat

Do you think I could add anouther needle or is that enough?
I'll have pics soon

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"I am the lizard king, I can do anything".
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do you ever see your spiny eel?? i got one about 2 months ago and put it in one of my tanks,, as soon as it got free in the tank it went straight to the bottom and burried itself in the gravel, i havnt seen it since,, i noticed some in a LFS with only there heads sticking out of the gravel - mine doesnt seem to be doing this.

Sounds like enough to me

Qserv, I had a spiney nose eel which used to bury itself and I was forever scouring the gravel to see if was still there.
Got to watch them with certain fish while they are small, but they do end up large and will prey on other fish

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TONY
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The spiny eel is out all the time, realy cool to watch him swim. I heard that the spinys don't get big like the tire track and fire eel, they get like 10in. Is this true?

I hear they can reach 2ft

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TONY
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Gezzz,,,, thats huge, the guy at the LFS told me they get about 10-12in max, mine is currently about 6-8in i scared him out of the gravel last night whilst vacuming,, its the first i have seen him in a month or so

I could be wrong and that might be the max they get in the wild

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TONY
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my needles are starting to fight with eachother, since there schooling fish do you think it would ce beter to have three, and have good filtration. I've heard that schooling fish fight when there's only two of them.
Thanks for your help

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"I am the lizard king, I can do anything".
Jim Morrison

The Spiny eel (Caecomastacembelus frenatus) has a max size of 40cm(Still pretty damn big), isnt www.fishbase.org handy

thats not the type of spiny eel I have.this is the one I have. www.aquariacentral.com
They didn't have the one I had at fishbase, or they might have, there was one that only got 20cm but no pic so it might have been.

[This message has been edited by oscar andy (edited 01-25-2002).]

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