'Therefore we can't discount the possibility that what people see and believe is the Loch Ness Monster might be a giant eel. 'Well, our data doesn't reveal their size, but the sheer quantity of the material says that we can't discount the possibility that there may be giant eels in Loch Ness. Eels are very plentiful in Loch Ness, with eel DNA found at pretty much every location sampled - there are a lot of them. Professor Gemmell said: 'There is a very significant amount of eel DNA. Catfish and suggestions that a wandering Greenland shark were behind the sightings were also discounted. No evidence of a prehistoric marine reptile called a plesiosaur or a large fish such as a sturgeon were found. Researchers from New Zealand tried to catalogue all living species in the loch by extracting DNA from water samples.įollowing analysis, the scientists ruled out the presence of large animals said to be behind reports of a monster. Eels are very plentiful in Loch Ness, with eel DNA found at pretty much every location sampled - there are a lot of them' It is not your fault and I am sorry you lost him.Professor Gemmell said: 'There is a very significant amount of eel DNA.
Most pet stores do not know they aren't fully freshwater fish, most don't go into the effort of learning more about them. Most people don't get the information soon enough to help their oddball fish and sometimes the fish starves in the time it takes to get it to eat (it often won't eat after being moved around, so being captured, moved around, put in possibly diseased tanks at the supplies, then bagged and shipped to various stores, then left in that stressing time in a small aquarium in freshwater, then bagged and sent home, all that can lead to a very sick fish that doesn't make it very long, sometimes they are healthier than others) after being moved.
They will only survive in freshwater for a short time (compared to the lifespan they can have) and need the salt. They are caught in freshwater because that is where they start. Using this I can provide an even more lifelike environment for my marine/brackish animals.Īs long as your eel is eating and trying to move, I believe there is a decent chance of survival, though if he is ill, treatment of any kind could hurt him with the condition he's in.Įels caught is fresh water are babies, this is labelled a Freshwater Snowflake Eel or Indian Mud Eel, mine is completely salt but I got him and started transitioning him right to brackish (it took around two weeks to get him to salt - aquarium salt is a rip off as it is just regular sea salt, cheaper to buy in bulk. I bought a product called reef plus, it contains similar amounts of trace ingredients that are contained in marine salt. Marine salt contains trace elements of nutrients needed for the shells and function of many marine animals. I got a few brackish fish sold in the freshwater section, they would've died if kept in fresh.Īlso a good thing to remember with aquarium salt and marine salt, aquairum salt doesn't have anything a marine fish needs in it, it's just normal salt. If they have them in fresh, look them up and do a bit of research before keeping them in fresh. I was planning on mentioning brackish last night, but it was late and I couldn't find infor on a money eel, nor did it ring a bell that it may be a moray.įor reference, most crabs, Eels and gobies sold at pet stores are backish.