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The Ribbon Moray
Eel, Rhinomuraena quaesita
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By Bob Fenner
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In Malaysia
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Rhinomuraena species, the
Ribbon Moray Eels. Ninety nine percent plus do
not live a month in captivity. Most starve, refusing all
food. Next most common category of loss is escape through the
smallest of top openings, or plumbing. Last is "simple
stress".
The written record shows some
people's success with netting food and eel together and
shaking, training on select live skewered items; but most black
to blue to all yellow female ribbon morays perish within a short
while. You've been cautioned. Rhinomuraena quaesita:
Fiji image at right or a changeling female and male. Below, a
juvenile (black) and male in N. Sulawesi and a female in Mabul,
Malaysia. Females are mostly to all yellow in
color.
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