Eel came with LR, now what do I do with him?

[Chineseghoststory]

I bought some LR for my new nano today which I was just seting up. It took about an hour before I got the water ready and the salinity right before I put the LR in. In the mean time it was sitting in a plastic bag with just a teeny bit of water at the bottom. I had the salinity of the water just a tad too high, but I had to leave it that way for about two hours since i was unavopidably called away. Well I finally got back, got the salinity right and topped the tank off.

 

Sitting back to admire my work, I then see this frigging EEL poking it's head out of a crack in the rocks! I was amazed he had survived the 1/2 trip out of water and then two hours of elevated salinity!! Obviously he hitched a ride in the LR. This is no small eel, either...he's about 14 inches long, 1.5 inches wide and white with two rows of evenly placed brown spots all along the body. Sorry, no time to do a species ID yet.

 

Well what do I do with him? What do I feed him? Should he go back to the pet store? What is the cost of a typical eel and how would he do in a nano with a damsel, shrimp and starfish eventually? I am thinking of bribing them into giving me at least a REAL primo piece of LR and a starfish for this eel back. I feel he is mine in the legal and moral sense, but I may want to exchange him for something else if he's better off going back.

 

Anyone care to share with ther group? BTW, this store is owned by the same guys at the LFS from my last post who tried the ridiculous move of selling me some of their used water out of an established tank to start my nano with. Jeez, I was almost laughed off the board for that one. Luckily I didn't fall for it.

 

Thanks,

 

Jeff