Wolf Eel Fun!!

WOLF EELS BY MATIAS TOTZ

Basic Info

One of the more popular creatures in the Shaw Ocean Discovery Aquarium is the wolf eel. Fully grown these magnificent creatures can reach the length of almost 200 cm which is almost 80 inches, and weigh about 40 lbs!! Wolf eels feed on crustaceans, sea urchins, mussels, clams, and some smaller fishes. At the aquarium we feed them cut up herring, cut up squid, and larger krill. These creatures love to hide in any crack or undergrowth they can find. At the aquarium, they will not come out until feeding time and when the larger food has been eaten they disappear once again into their hiding spots. Wolf eels are very curious and friendly, except for a few cases of wolf eel bites, these guys are rarely aggressive. During feeding time at the aquarium, one of the wolf eels normally swims to the very top of the tank where he will get hand fed and will receive a head pat. In some parts of the world like Northwest America, people enjoy the taste of wolf eels’ tasty and savoury white flesh. All juvenile wolf eels have dark grey skin colour but when they grow up they may take on a bleach white colour if they are a male, and if they are a female, a darker skin tone. Wolf eels may look like an eel, they may have “eel” in their name, but they are actually not true eels because they have pelvic fins. These beautiful fish are commonly mistaken for eels but they truly belong to the fish class and not the eel class.

Sources: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wolf_eel
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