African Mottled Eel

The African Mottled Eel is a tropical, freshwater eel found in East Africa, Bangladesh, Andaman Islands, Mozambique, Malawi, Sri Lanka, Sumatra, and Indonesia and recently from Madagascar. Though widely distributed, the Mottled Eel is listed as Near Threatened by the IUCN Redlist. Although the Eels are too large for use in aquariums, they are commercial in subsistence fisheries. The Eels spend most of their lives in freshwater at a depth range of 10-32 ft (3-10 m), but migrate to the Indian Ocean to breed. The Eels feed primarily off of crustaceans, mollusks, finfish and worms.