Shell on or off?
 

Okay well I have made a new additon to my tank. (good ol birthday money)!

I have purchased a Zebra Moray Eal and when I purchased it I asked the LFS to show me that it eats and they did, he told me that you just take a shrimp and peel the shell off and feed away. Well I have done some reading and some simple thinking and wonder if you really need to remove the shell. I have been removing it (from the tiger prawn) that I have been feeding but I wonder why?

Wondering what some of you do, and other food suggestions.

Thanks for the tips, oh and I love this fish!

I would say off is best. Not sure how digestable the shell would be.

Just wondering why that is though, would they not eat the shell in the wild?

I feed my BTA tiger prawns with the shell on ... the shell is mostly calcium anyway and like you said they dont peel em first in the wild :razz:

Cheers

I had one for about 4 years tell I got rid of him to go completly Reef. He was realy cool I wish I had room for another tank so I could of kept him. He loved krill, shrimp, prawns, clams, and small frozen fish I can't remember what they were called (Silver sides) maybe. I left the shells on everyhing, they don't remove the shells in the wild so I didn't. Never had a problem.

I usually pull the skin off, sometimes I leave it on thinking a little roughage can't be so bad. When they eat fish in nature or in your tank it's bones and all so it can't hurt.

Dave

Buk a neer

How big is your BTA that it eats prawns?

Dave

All spread out the oral disk is prolly a foot wide ... it was retracted at the meet because we were cleaning the inside edge of the front glass the day before the meet.

Cheers

well thanks for all the input, I guess I will just stay as I have been doing but every so often I think I will offer it some shell.

thanks again for the input.