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Appropriate Home. Spiny Eels are all escape artists so their aquarium must have a cover without escape holes, or they will escape for sure. If your tank cover has holes, cut pieces of plastic from a plastic milk carton. Be sure the pieces are clean, then tape them over the holes in your cover. Even better get an Eclipse 1, 2, or 3 Aquarium Hood for your aquarium. The Eclipses leave no holes for your Eels to jump through.
Eventually these Spiny Eels will need an aquarium with at least 29 gallons of water, an exterior power filter with a BIO-Wheel, a maximum of 1/4 inch of gravel, and an aquarium heater with the temperature of the water adjusted to between 75 and 82 degrees F.
Spiny Eels need a piece of pipe or a cave. Be sure that all the pipes, caves, decorations, ornaments, and everything else you put in your aquarium are aquarium-safe and will not contaminate the aquarium water.
Recommended Diet. Spiny Eels must be fed live Black Worms and perhaps other worms for variety. They will also eat Ghost Shrimp and small fish about the size of Guppies and Neon Tetras, so Spiny Eels are not good tank mates for small fish.
Compatibility. Spiny Eels like to congregate in the same piece of plastic pipe or cave. So it's probably best to keep a group of Spiny Eels with at least three eels of the same species and about the same size.
Good tank mates for Spiny Eels are all Gouramis, all Barbs including Tinfoil Barbs, all Rainbows, a school of Bala Sharks, one Red Tail Shark or one Rainbow Shark, and a school of Clown Loaches.
