Spotted Garden Eel

Actinopterygii ray finned fishes anguilliformes eels and morays congridae conger and garden eels heterocongrinae etymology.

Spotted garden eel. They grow to 16 inches 40 cm in length and have a body diameter of 0 5 inch 1 3 cm. The spotted garden eel is a deep sea creature found in the ocean in new leaf and new horizons. Juveniles have a very thin black body.

Spotted garden eels are widely distributed from the indo pacific and northwestern australia to the red sea and east africa and are found in waters as deep as 150 feet. Garden eels live a strange life. In new leaf an information board in the aquarium will list information about this creature.

Spotted garden eels heteroconger hassi are an attractive and highly interesting species of eel that live in large colonies commonly in the hundreds to thousands that prefer to burrow into the substrate of sandy flats and slopes along the reefs throughout the tropical waters of the red sea and the indo pacific. The spotted garden eel occurs in tropical marine waters of the indo pacific region from east africa north to japan south to new caledonia and east to the pitcairn islands. The garden eel then coats the sand walls with mucus from its body to cement the sand grains together to prevent collapse.

Spotted garden eels are named. Greek heteros other latin conger conger ref. The male is much larger and its jaw sticks out further.

Diving is the only way to obtain it. The spotted garden eel lives in a sandy burrow that it digs tail first. The spotted garden eel has three larger distinctive black spots.

Colonies are usually found on sandy flats and slopes bordering coral reefs sometimes living among seagrass for extra camouflage. In australia it is known from the great barrier reef queensland. Spotted garden eels have three large black patches and numerous black spots all over their body large yellow eyes and an upturned mouth they are sexually dimorphic meaning males and females look different.