Beginning around age seven, the female lays up to 10,000 eggs at a time, then coils around them and uses her body to shape the eggs into a neat sphere roughly the size of a grapefruit. When she’s settled, the male coils around her as an added layer of protection. They mate for life and the pair takes special care of its eggs as they develop. Combined with their long, snaggly front teeth they look ferocious, but Wolf Eels tend to be aggressive only to other Wolf Eels.
Males have thick jaws and a bulging forehead. This slender fish is gray as a rain cloud, with large heads and dark spots over their backs.
Its name originates from the greek word Anarhichas, a fish in which the Wolf Eel resembles and the latin word ocellatus which means eye-like spots. They swim by making deep S-shapes with their bodies, like a snake moving across the ground. Wolf Eels occur in shallow water to as deep as 740 feet. They love to eat crabs, urchins & shellfish and are not “eels” in the true sense of the word. Adults wind those long bodies into caves & crevices, sticking just their heads out and waiting for something crunchy to swim by. Goby - (deceased) approx 2.Wolf Eels look more or less normal-sized down to their neck and then their bodies just keep going, with thick, muscular waves of tail stretching nearly 8 feet behind them. He is the only “predator class” inhabitant in the tank. My secondary concern is that now he has eaten this goby fish, which i thought was too large for him to begin with, will he now regress from the feeding schedule we had and try his luck with the other inhabitants. Also now that he has eaten this large of a portion, i am unsure of when to think about feeding him again. I’m keeping an eye on him but am unsure of what to look for as far as signs of struggle. His breathing is on the heavy side, with his gills flaring every so often. He has found a hiding spot in the tank and is just “relaxing” so to speak. My primary concern is for the health of the G.W.E, will he be able to properly digest this large of a meal successfully.
#Baby wolf eel movie
He consumed the entire fish and it looks like the scene out the movie “Anaconda” when the snake ate the dude and you could see the shape of it thru the side of the snake. My fear was the goby was too large so i tried to take it from him. By the time i got to him the goby was dead but he had not consumed it yet. My wife came to get me in a panic telling me “Wolfgang” (affectionately named) was killing the new goby. Unfortunately, i slept in this morning and missed his 7am scheduled feeding. Is very fast and is slightly smaller than the goby was. Both fish i believed were too big for him to go after. Yesterday i bought a jeweled blenny and a sand sifting goby to help control algae and diatom breakout in my substrate(crushed coral). After feeding, there have been no issues with aggression towards other tank inhabitants.
He’s been slightly aggressive toward some of the other inhabitants but its usually right before or right on time with his schedule that this occurs. I have been feeding him freeze-dried shrimp by hand, until satisfied regularly on a schedule and haven’t had any issues. Everything else in the tank is bigger than his head so I wasn’t to worried about them.
Not a big deal, in a way i did expect it, so I wasn’t surprised when it happened. The first day i had him in there he ate a cleaner shrimp that was in the tank.
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