[fishoholic]

I bought a large 16 oz bag (ziplock freezer type of bag that they come in) of San Francisco bay brand silversides. Maybe I just got lucky in the fact that there are small ones as well as large ones in that bag. In my other tank my angelfish, grouper and lunare wrasse all eat the big silversides as well as my trigger and sohal in the reef tank will eat them too. So I thaw a chunk of silversides and pick out the small ones for my eel. Sometimes it's not a whole silverside but just the tail and back half of the silverside. I find my eel can only grab onto the tail of the silverside, so when I feed him I have to make sure the small tail part is facing down towards him. Once he's gotten ahold of the tail he is able to swallow it down, but if the silverside is to fat or if the head (or the larger side part) of the silverside is facing towards him he wont be able to grab ahold of it.

I pretty much feed him everyday one or 2 pieces of silverside. Usually once a week (sometimes twice) I only feed pellets to the tank, so on those days he doesn't get fed. However on those days he looks at me like "What on earth is this small brown stuff, where's my food Lady!" Right now my eel will only eat silversides, he used to eat mysis and some krill when I first got him but now he wont touch the stuff. I worry that he will get sick of silversides (maybe I'll try some clam in the future) but for now he still loves them.