Eels

juicemonkey

Has anyone kept eels?

i remember feeding them at the melbourne botanic gardens when i was a kid
so im sure they take a pellet

and i know smoked eel (unagi) was delicious when i was in Japan
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unagi

My friends in NNSW catch heaps of them whenever they go fishing
they survive out of water well

too bad WA people can have tilapia but no eels. good way to get rid of excess babies.

question is..

has anyone done it. and do you have any pointers?
im especially curious about growth rates.
could we catch a small (legal) eel in the river and fatten it up

juicemonkey

got it...

viewtopic.php?f=2&t=5540

but would still welcome new input

juicemonkey

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Eels can be grown intensively in recirculation systems at up to 100kgs/m³ but generally at around 60kgs/m³.

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Many people are looking at eel farming these days due to the relatively high prices paid per kilogram. You can purchase small eels from professional fisherman at around 200 – 300 gram in size and from $2 - $4/kg. These eels can then be trained onto pellet feed and fed daily in special earthen eel ponds can reach a weight of 1kg in 12 months. This is the easiest method of growing eels as using glass eels is a very labour intensive method. 200gram eels can be easily trained onto Silver Perch or Barra Pellets without any great effort. Keep them well fed in good quality water and cannibalism will be greatly reduced. :wink:

sounds good for commercial AP
all those veggies might offset the price of the feed
and give you a bonus eel crop

http://www.nswaqua.com.au/information-eels.html

more

viewtopic.php?f=25&t=3999&hilit=eel

viewtopic.php?f=18&t=3196&hilit=eel

Steve S

Oooooh, you do learn :lol:

, just were searching for it.

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and i know smoked eel (unagi) was delicious when i was in Japan

very true, last time had them in the jap. restaurant opposite Paddy's entrance in Sydney

Used to fish them nearby some years ago before my spot was turned into a Water Sport Centre for the Comm. Games. :angryfire:

KudaPucat

afaik elvers are extremely hard to come by. They breed in salt water and are only wild caught. although there's another thread here stating that the Kiwis have made some progress in the captive breeding, and can now breed viable elvers. However perhaps not economically yet.

hydroloz

Hi K.P.
Have you tried these firms for info.
Eels P/L. Cleveland St. Skipton. 5340 2005
Australian Cultured Eels P/L. 1 Graham St.. Euroa. 5795 1924
East Coast Eels (Aust). Lot 1 Princes Hwy. Stratford. 5145 6863

Best of luck.

Laurie. (Hydoloz)

grunta · **Joined:** Jun 20th, '08, 21:21 **Posts:** 280 **Gender:**

for any one in W.A, there is a sea food shop on leach highway that used to sell live eals, at the intersection of North lake road and Leach highway, near Bunnings, they had them in a big tank next to silver perch and cray fish.

i say used to because i havent been there for a while so i dont know if they still keep them in stock.

KudaPucat

No I haven't Hydro, I like to share my knowledge, but it's rare that I'll be excited enough to research a topic. I was waiting for some1 to say they were doing it, and you could get em cheap from "here" :-)
I'm also rather lazy :-D

I do appreciate the info

juicemonkey

thanks

yes i recall seeing live eels in tanks at chinese restaurants in northbridge

same in brisbane in fortitude valley at yeos/yuens? supermarket

i was just thinking of a 'feedlot fattening' situation

catch small eels in the river while fishing, turn them into big eels in AP...

grunta · **Joined:** Jun 20th, '08, 21:21 **Posts:** 280 **Gender:**

hay juice, we dont get to catch eels over here but i am doing that (catch ing and fatening) with bream and hoping to do that with redfin perch,

that way i can enjoy fishing and have a fresh feed when i want once they are all fattened up in the tank.

juicemonkey

no you just get these suckers
pun intended

http://www.mdbc.gov.au/subs/fish-info/n ... mprey.html

http://portal.environment.wa.gov.au/pls ... RCWN14.PDF

KudaPucat

WTF? They eat other fish! I want suckers that eat algae only... I got excited until I saw 'lamprey' :-(

do we have any cold water algae eating fish?

juicemonkey

well theres freshwater prawns in the collie river
dont they eat algae?

i took a scoop net to the river edge near the tafe in collie, and came up with all sorts of beauties
pygmy perch, shrimp and other aquatic fauna

grunta · **Joined:** Jun 20th, '08, 21:21 **Posts:** 280 **Gender:**

i did have the glass shrimp in my system and they went realy well untill i disterbed the system and they all got eaten and i havent been able to get any more.

have seen lots of those big suckers in pemberton, they make my skin crawll

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