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About Spotted Garden Eel
Spotted Garden Eels are slender, elongated fish with a tan to yellowish-brown base color heavily marked with dark brown or black spots and reticulations throughout the body. They have a small mouth adapted for plankton feeding and typically remain partially buried in sand with only the upper portion of their body exposed. Their eyes are positioned high on the head for feeding while remaining anchored in substrate.
Key facts
- Diet Details
- Feed small copepods, amphipods, and other zooplankton. Live foods are preferred; frozen mysis shrimp can supplement. Feed small portions 2–3 times daily. A refugium stocked with copepod populations is highly beneficial.
- Diet
- planktivore
- Feeding Schedule
- 2-3 times daily
- Common Health Issues
- Starvation, parasitic infections, stress-related decline, sand erosion of gills
- Origin
- Indo-Pacific region, including the Red Sea, East Africa, and extending through the Indian Ocean to the western Pacific. Found in shallow reef environments and sandy areas adjacent to coral structures.
- Care Requirements
- • Minimum 75-gallon aquarium with fine sand substrate (essential for burrowing) • Water parameters: 72-78°F, pH 8.1-8.3, salinity 1.023-1.025 • Requires calm, low-flow areas; feed small meaty foods (copepods, mysis, amphipods) • Nocturnal; provide shelter and low lighting; pair or small groups tolerate each other better
- Care Level
- Hard
- Max Size
- 14
- Min tank size
- 75 gallons
- Family
- Congridae
- Water Parameters
- Temperature: 72-78°F pH: 8.1-8.3 Salinity: 1.023-1.025
- Appearance
- Spotted Garden Eels are slender, elongated fish with a tan to yellowish-brown base color heavily marked with dark brown or black spots and reticulations throughout the body. They have a small mouth adapted for plankton feeding and typically remain partially buried in sand with only the upper portion of their body exposed. Their eyes are positioned high on the head for feeding while remaining anchored in substrate.
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