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About Sillner's Garden Eel
Sillner's Garden Eel is a slender, elongated conger with a pale tan to yellowish-brown body marked by distinctive dark blotches or saddle markings along the dorsal surface. The fish has a relatively small mouth and large eye, with the rear two-thirds of the body capable of entering the sand burrow. A characteristic white or light stripe often runs along the lower side.
Key facts
- Common Health Issues
- Stress-related decline, substrate refusal (failure to burrow), starvation (refusal to eat), secondary infections from handling or inadequate water quality.
- Family
- Congridae
- Care Level
- Hard
- Max Size
- 20
- Diet Details
- Feed small frozen foods such as mysis shrimp, copepods, and small silversides. Offer food 1–2 times daily in small portions, allowing the eel to pluck food from the water column near its burrow.
- Temperament
- Peaceful
- Origin
- Indo-Pacific region, including the Red Sea, East Africa, Indonesia, and the Philippines. Found in tropical reef environments at depths typically between 10–50 meters.
- Care Requirements
- • 75+ gallon tank with 6+ inches fine sand bed for burrowing • Water: 72–78°F, pH 8.1–8.3, salinity 1.023–1.025 • Low to moderate flow; nocturnal; needs hiding spots and calm environment • Carnivore: frozen mysis shrimp, copepods, small crustaceans • Peaceful; compatible with reef systems; feed small frequent portions
- Reef safety
- Reef Safe
- Difficulty Level
- Garden eels are challenging for most hobbyists due to their specialized habitat requirements, dependence on live sand for burrow construction, and difficulty accepting non-live food sources in captivity. They require a mature, well-established tank with soft substrate and minimal disturbance.
- Diet
- carnivore
- Feeding Schedule
- 1-2 times daily
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