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What do eels eat?
What is an eels life cycle?
What pond fish or group are they competing with?
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We use to just use night crawlers for them in fresh water. At the shore we caught them on everything dead that hit the water, chicken, squid,blood worms, cut bait.
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The following is largely from a previous set of answers I have given to a similar question.
The common native American eel, Anguilla rostrata (brown or yellow eel) begins life in the Sargasso sea, migrates to costal bays and river mouths, remains small there, and then migrates up rivers and streams to reside in ponds and lakes for years, growing to adult size and then migrating back to its breeding grounds. Eels can and do sometimes migrate some distance over dry land from stream to pond. During their fresh-water life, eels grow considerably larger in northern waters than in the South. Females grow larger than males. Eels are carnivores that specialize in live crustaceans, small fish, etc., but will eat any meat, living or dead. In small numbers, they are unlikely to have much impact on a pond of an acre or more, I think, and they cannot reproduce in fresh water. They are toothed and can give an unwary fisherman a nasty bite.
On the other hand, exotic species which can reproduce in fresh water have been introduced to American waters from time to time and have the potential to do great damage. You will remember the northern snakehead scare in Maryland a few years ago. Also, so-called "rice eels," which are air breathing fish that look like eels but are not and that can migrate long distances over land, have been introduced into North Georgia. Unlike the American eel, they have no pectoral fins. They would be almost impossible to eradicate once established.
If you still have the fish and are not absolutely positive it is a native eel, you would do well to have it identified by an expert.
Lou
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For salt water eels, just remember:
"See that eel in the reef
With the sharp, shiny teeth?
That's a Moray!"
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Theo, did they teach you that at the vacation resort's dive school?  Kidding, buddy..Happy New Year!
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"She took another microscopic bite of her sandwich, then pushed it away. Maybe she absorbed nutrients from her surroundings."
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Sunil - Looks like one of Theo's temporal distortion experiments.
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Originally posted by Theo Gallus:
For salt water eels, just remember:
"See that eel in the reef
With the sharp, shiny teeth?
That's a Moray!" You're killing me, Theo! Bremer Pond, you're sure to hear from someone on that one. 
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Lou good to hear from you !!! How is Mudcat Joe ? Being a catfish I bet he knows a little about eels. Eric, Mudcat Joe is out trapping muskrats, but his cousin, Jos� Barbo, says the topic makes him a little eel. Lou
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"Live like you'll die tomorrow, but manage your grass like you'll live forever." -S. M. Stirling
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Originally posted by bobad: Originally posted by Theo Gallus:
For salt water eels, just remember:
"See that eel in the reef
With the sharp, shiny teeth?
That's a Moray!"
Anyone that gets that one is almost as old as dirt. Hello, Red Clay, I'm Sandy Loam. :rolleyes:
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Mudcat Joe : I hope cousin Jos� Barbo is feeling a little more spine and a lot less eel today.
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Eric, OW! I get your point, and so does se�or Barbo.
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