freshwater eel, but don’t know what it is… ?

i’ve had a freshwater eel for a while but don’t know what it is… It’s dark silver, lighter on the bottom, long 1 piece dorsal fin. head is shaped that of a fish head but flat, it is about 40cm in length. fairly sure that it is not a “rope fish”. It is housed with several african cichlids, a 15cm long albino sucka,1 chinese algae eater, 5 mystery snails, 1 spiny/tyre track eel, 1 small bristle nose pleco and several shrimp (not sure of breed). Environment good condition with lots of live plants, some hiding places, good water condition, etc. Both eels a very active (day and night) all fish are hand fed. The tank is only though 3-4 foot long, but a good start!
Feed: live bloodworms and shrimp, frozen bloodworms, ready to introduce frozen brine shrimp! small and medium floating cichlid pellets, cichlid flake, algae bits, on occation feeder fish.

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it is between 30 and 40cm
Gymnothorax tile is looking like the closest i have seen yet, thanx

2 Responses to freshwater eel, but don’t know what it is… ?

  1. thats a freshwater moray eel or a tire track ,zig zag or peacock eel they get large tiretracks can get up to 30 inches which is like 60 cm

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  2. A) tiretrack, zigzag etc eels are NOT morays

    B) it looks like a Gymnothorax tile, a brackish moray
    How big is he? You should start swithing him over now if you’ve had him for few months

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