Eels are fish.

The eel is a kind of fish that grows in the tropical and warm temperate zones, and its body is long and slender, yellow or brown in color, with patterns, mainly in paddy fields and ponds, and the breeding of eels should be chosen to facilitate the drainage and irrigation, adequate water sources, and provide it with food such as water fleas, earthworms, moths and other food, so that eels can grow better.

The size of its body is more similar to the snake, the largest can be up to one meter long, and the eel's head is more rounded, the tail is more pointed, the body color is brown, there are no scales, but the whole body is distributed with irregular patterns, mainly in the silt under the water, paddy fields, ponds, as well as in the streams.

The eel is a carnivorous and ferocious fish that can prey on a variety of small animals such as insects and their larvae, and can also devour frogs, tadpoles and small fish. The eel's ingestion is mostly in the form of sucking, whenever it senses that there is a small animal in the side of its mouth, that is, open mouth sucking. In summer, the eel feeds most vigorously, and in the cold season, it may not eat for a long time without dying.

Life habits of the eel

The eel prefers to burrow in the humus in the mud during the daytime or to live in the watery rock crevices in the embankment. It is rarely active during the day and comes out at night to forage for food. Nocturnal, oral skin folds viable respiration, so can breathe air directly. Winter and dry season, will dig holes as deep as 1-2 meters underground, several fish **** habitat. Gills are not developed, but with the oral cavity and the laryngeal cavity of the inner wall of the epidermis as a respiratory auxiliary organs, can breathe air directly; in the water when the oxygen content is very poor, can also survive. Out of the water, as long as the skin is kept moist, within a few days will not die.

The eel is a carnivorous and ferocious fish, mostly feeding at night, and can prey on a variety of small animals, such as insects and their larvae, and can also devour frogs, tadpoles and small fish. The eel's ingestion is mostly in the form of slurping, whenever it senses a small animal in its mouth, that is, open mouth slurping. It is an omnivorous fish that feeds on all kinds of small animals. It is greedy, and its feeding is most vigorous in summer, and it can not eat for a long time in the cold season without dying.