I would say that they are eating when your not watching possibly when the lights are off

I am sure the Eels are ok. They do sometimes starve, but like a previous person said, they eat at night, and eat the scraps of food you feed to the other fish. They find food. You should try to "hand feed" the eel. I got my eel to eat out of my hand slowly. I first dropped the blood worms by their head, because at first you can't get too close. Then after they start eating it, you actually slowly hand feel them. My eel now eats out of hand, and is very happy. He is a glutten, and comes out all the time, hoping I will feed him. Here is my eel in his new tank, haming it up with the other gluttonous fish in my tank. It takes time, but it should eat out of your hand, if you slowly wein them onto the blood worms by hand.

Also, you do have a lot of eels, and I wouldn't be surprised if a few might die off. It is usually not recommended to keep more than one in a tank (but that never stops us when we buy other species of fish). My fire eel here killed my eel that you have (the same type as yours got killed). There might be infighting that you don't see.







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ur eels is absolutely adorable!!!

i guess u all r right..... the eels must be eating at night.......

i got 4 eels and none of them fight....its been 2 months since i got them and they all r healthy and no bruises/infections.....

i shall try and get them to eat from my hand but its hard as the minute they see anyone approaching the tank they hide!!!!

My eel didn't get friendly or come out with the lights on until over a year. I first tried to get them to eat while the lights are on, by dropping the food right next to where they are (or where they are hidden). Then after they get used to eating with the lights on, go for hand feeding them. They are pretty shy fish, and you can vouch for me on that one. I can't wait to see photo's of you hand feeding 4 eels. That would be really cool. Your eels are beautiful, by the way. I love my eel. He is the last fish I would ever get rid of, and he isn't as rare or known as a show fish or anything.

thanks
i shall try to coax them to come out of hiding ....
peacock eels r pretty rare here and most ppl think that they r real eels.....

Well it would be nice if you could coax them out and to feed from your hands If you do manage to achieve it dont forget to take pics