Hitchhiker Eel ID please - Page 2

mike31154 · #1 03-30-2013, 03:39 PM

Very nifty. If it positively id's as an australicola, a rare specimen indeed. Only documented since 1992!

paddyob · #2 05-01-2013, 03:52 PM

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Originally Posted by mike31154

Very nifty. If it positively id's as an australicola, a rare specimen indeed. Only documented since 1992!

21 years ago is actually quite a long time ago as science goes. Discoveries of rare to "extinct" animals happens all the time.

monza · #3 05-01-2013, 03:55 PM

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Originally Posted by paddyob

21 years ago is actually quite a long time ago as science goes. Discoveries of rare to "extinct" animals happens all the time.

especially on the streets of Edmonton...

iishanreef · #4 03-25-2013, 05:40 PM

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Originally Posted by Delphinus

Are the eyes blue or is there any blue in the eyes? It's hard to tell by the pictures but the clincher with golden dwarf moray is that there is blue in the eyes.

are you sure there's no possibility he could have been introduced sooner than a few years ago?

My advice is keep him. They're no threat to anything but the smallest shrimp and fish. I
They are escape artists though so make sure you have a good cover.

The eyes dont have any blue, they are black and goldish (but i will take a closer look and try go get some better pis next weekend, my tank is at my parents house). there is almost no chance i got him less than 4 years ago: my first tank was 50g and after it was cycled and LR cured i bought 2 15-20lbs LR that was fully cured (encrusting coral and sponges all over) so i suspect this was where i came from b/c the rock was very cavernous. a year or 2 later i upgraded to 120g and bought 100 lbs of LR but it was not cured and came out of the curing bins at my LFS, i finished curing it in the tank and i think it is unlikely that it could survive the process. after the big tank was ready i moved the contents of 50g in. since then ive only bought small pieces of coral. I am DEFINATLY keeping him, but hes in his own 50g tank now because small gobies are my fav and before i discovered him he ate all that i put in (cuz thats all he had to survive off of, no hard feelings). and his tank has a very secure plexiglas lid i cut myself with no openings he could possibly get out of (only tiny air holes arent plugged by heater/pump wires).

iishanreef · #5 03-25-2013, 05:42 PM

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Originally Posted by Delphinus

My vote is the golden dawrf moray.

im inclined to agree after browsing some online photos (despite lack of blue in eyes, but ill double check asap)