Yes The one difference with birds vs the others is they mostly focus on wild, instead of captive/domestic stuff (outside some major groups like parrots).
Reef HQ has Highfin Moray and Giant Moray Kyoto Aquarium has Spotted Garden Eel, Splendid Garden Eel and Giant Moray (possibly some conger eel species on the second floor of the Sea of Kyoto exhibit, but I did not see that floor so cannot confirm) Cairns Aquarium has Giant Moray, Honeycomb Moray, Australian Freshwater Moray and Australian Short-Finned Eel Tokyo Sea Life Park has Giant Moray and possibly some other species
... which quite aptly reflects the situation of speciecism in zoos, with the popular representatives of the mammalian megafauna on top. challenge accepted
Between the two aquariums I've been to, they hold Electric Eel, Barred Moray, Dragon Moray, American Eel, California Moray, Green Moray, Leopard Moray Eel, Purplemouth Moray Eel, Ribbon Eel, Wolf Eel, and Spotted Moray.
Another non-eel bearing the name. Wolf Eels are not related to the Anguilliformes at all. For that matter neither is the Eelpout (Zoarcidae), Green Wolf Eel (Pseudochromidae), or the Convict Eel Blenny (Pholidichthidae).
Yep! I figured I might as well include them since other people mentioned them as well. Wow, I didn't realize how many other "eels" there were.
there are zoos without aquariums and aquariums without zoos, anyhow... Eels, fascinating creatures. They can travel across land from one water source to another. Just think about that, its got no legs, its got no lungs and has gills and can manage that! Then they live for over 100 years some species, this is proven with something to do with age rings in otolith bones in the eels head (I don't regurgitate google info here) research this yourself. Fish are probably my personal fav and what I am most knowledgeable (still very little!) about in UK and European freshwater sp. The downside for all eel sp. is that they are not interesting enough for zoos, 99.5% of visitors would walk by or pull a face near an eel tank, plus eels generally like dark conditions and to hide away or be wedged into something, then they are absolutely useless captive breeders compared to many other fish. Put all this together and you have a rather useless aquarium animal for the general public and aquarium owner. Remember the owner owns the aquarium to make money and not as a hobby to please weirdos like me and a few others who like eels. Irrespective, eels are super
Tokyo Sea Life Park has Dragon Eel too, Japanese Eel is signed at Kyoto Aquarium but I did not see it, and another species of freshwater eel that I am not familiar with. Melbourne Aquarium has Honeycomb Moray and Giant Moray.
I would hardly call all eel species not interesting enough, this may be true of freshwater eels but moray eels seem to be much more popular with visitors, and you would be hard pressed to find an aquarium without at least one species of moray. They are rare outside of Japanese aquariums but garden eels are extremely popular with guests as well.
I've seen at least half a dozen Mastacemblus and related eels in aquarium stores, and they're popular so hard to say. Monterey Bay Aquarium has garden eels, and so do several others here in the United States. I've seen Heteroconger hassi and Gorgasia preclara many times in the aquarium stores as well.
I saw garden eels several times last year. Columbus, Pittsburgh, Ripley's, maybe somewhere else as well?
Huh, seems garden eels are more common outside of Japan than I thought. I can see why they're popular, garden eels are adorable!
Yeah, they're pretty common. They retail for about $25-40 apiece for Spotted and Splendid. I know, they're Synbranchiformes. Eel is a rather vague and over-applied term, too many groups bear the name.
