How to feed an eel while were on vacation...

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WOW.... Thank you so much for all the info!  Now all that brought up more questions... hope you don't mind....
So.. guess I need to pick up live food - besides the baby guppies I put in the tank... I feed frozen blood worms and frozen shrimp brine along with the reg. fish food, bio mix, flake, shrimp pellets, and other stuff that I add for treats now and then.... I tried orange slices for the goldfish... they just looked at it like what is that....
Bob (hubby) said maybe we should try clear rocks or tie a flag to his tail so we know where he is!? We have pea gravel - natural wash rounded type.... they have a fake log with lots of peek holes and a tube that we buried in the gravel... he'll have fun with the fish in them but still seems like he likes to hide in the gravel. I think the fish are just as spoiled as our greyhounds! He didn't come out last night - he was out in the afternoon then hid again.. haven't seen him yet today either... guess he likes testing my nerves now and then. Well... thanks again for all the advice.
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hi tina....

i don't mind at all.....the oranges don't suprise me much at all, try cucumber, leave the seeds in.  most fish love cucumbers, even large cichlids like oscars(i have 3) yeah i know i have a lot of fish my house feels like u r going under the ocean or a lake when u enter it because their are so many.  my eels have been known to hide for upto 3 months at a time (u can probably picture my suprise when i never found a corpse but a live eel instead)!  heads up tina, i forgot to mention those pesky snails that breed too rapidly and come on most live aquarium plats......the eels and loaches love to eat them.  i must admit i find eels very easy to keep, i do reccommend keeping a dwarf frog or 8 like do with them...great mix, easy to keep, just a suggestion.  like the fake log,.....suggestion: i use drift wood with mine---it naturally aids filtration and is natural part of eels native environment---a real win-win situation because it adds so much character to the tank.  another great reccommendation, i feed only Omega One brand fish food......loook at the ingredient list.  it is made of human grade ingredients.  and contains whole products, not meals like all of the other brands, plus it is produced in the usa(all the others are imported) in good old alaska.  keep me posted u can also email me direct if u want at dropmypants@hotmail.com  i know funny email, stemmed from a high school dare but hey it won me $50 so i couldn't complain.  tell bob the idea--kind of funny but i might have to try it...lol

good luck

timm