We enjoyed it so much finding new creatures in our adventures around the rock pools @ Sodwana Bay, especially on the days when the tides were really low! We were privileged enough to catch a couple of different eels in the rock pools.
What was fun and also a challenge was trying to capture any eel we possibly could find on camera. Not an easy job for a bunch of amateurs to do. But we still managed to get a few on camera.
Please bare in mind I took a few guesses from Internet photos to match up the type of eels that we took photos of, thus to say they might not all be the same type of eels and also their information could be inaccurate to the specific eel to.
Below are some images of our own and Images from the Internet with various information about them:
Sure snowflake – Own Footage Not so sure – Eel – Own Footage Not so sure – Eel – Own Footage I think this is a Snowflake Eel- Own Footage Snowflake Moray Eel – Internet Footage
Little information is given about the creature its self except that people like to keep these eels as saltwater aquarium pets. But here is a little Info on what they are:
The snowflake moray (Echidna nebulosa) also known as the clouded moray among many various vernacular names, is a species of marine fish of the family Muraenidae.[
It is widespread throughout the Indo-Pacific area from the eastern coast of Africa throughout Micronesia including the Red Sea and Hawaii.[ The species is also found in the eastern Central Pacific from southern Baja California, Mexico, and from Costa Rica to northern Colombia.[
This species reaches a length of 100 centimetres (39 in) but its common size is 50 centimetres (20 in). It lives at depths of between 2 and 30 metres (7 and 100 ft).
Well that’s all for now guys. Stay tuned for our next article.
Source Description: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snowflake_moray
Source Photo: https://www.bluezooaquatics.com