Dragon Eel being cleaned by Skunk Shrimp

My Dragon Eel (Enchelycore Pardalis) being cleaned by a Skunk Shrimp (Lysmata Amboinensis). If you look good you can see the pharyngeal jaw when the eel opens its mouth. This second set of jaws is used to help swallow prey.

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[littomika]

VERY COOL! You have a great set up! Thanks for sharing :)

[DeadAt959]

@littomika Thank you ;D



[lazarolechon1]

@DeadAt959 Do you think i could keep one of those shrimp with a snowflake that's one foot? i think the dragon doesn't eat it because it's benefitting from it and eating it wouldn't really help it. something tells me this won't work with a 1 foot known crustacean eater. what do you think?

[DeadAt959]

@lazarolechon1 Usually i wouldnt recommend mixing a shrimp with any of the echidna sp. Then again, i have had a few tanks that had 2ft snowflakes with cleaner shrimp and they didnt bother them. Could just be luckk but it also really depends on your eels personality.

[DeadAt959]

Oh, the dragon i had previous to this one would not allow any shrimp to live in its tank haha! So like i said depends on your fish.

[lazarolechon1]

@DeadAt959 yeah i guess so. i think it's just that the shrimp makes literally no difference to your eel which is MASSIVE

[mickserwillo]

What a beautiful creature. great video.

[TheBIGgourami]

Some small part of m still wants that eel to just go "CHOMP!"

[YanmingYuMusic]

whoooooooooooooooa! awesome, I always wanted eels lol maybe one day! So whats your setup and where do you get your supplies?