The difference between a moon eel and an eel is that the eel body is elongated in the shape of a snake, without scales, yellow-brown color, only a three-pronged thorns all over the body, the moon eel likes to eat dead dogs, dead cats and rotting corpses and so on, the body is more stout, with a strong poison, not edible.

Legend has it that there is a kind of eel, relatively rare, the body is more stout, the shape and general eel without obvious differences, half of the month sixteen when the moon is bright, often swim out of the cave, looking at the moon. This eel is called the moon eel, eat the death.

The eel body has irregular dark spots, the fins are not developed basically disappeared. Often live in rice paddies, small rivers, streams, ponds, rivers and canals, lakes and other silty water bottoms, there are production throughout China, the Yangtze River Basin in China, Liaoning and Tianjin production is more, the production period in June to October, to June to August produced by the most fat. It is widely distributed in eastern Asia and nearby islands of all sizes, from Southeast Asia in the west to the Philippine Islands in the east, from Japan in the north to the East Indies in the south.

Life habits of eels

The eel is a tropical and warm-temperate fish, a benthic fish, adaptable, and can survive in rivers, lakes, ditches, and rice paddies. Daytime like in more humus silt drilling holes or in the embankment of the rock gap in the water cave, daytime rarely active, the night out of the cave for food. Gills are not developed, but with the help of 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 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 an omnivorous fish that feeds on a variety of small animals, and is greedy, feeding most vigorously in summer, and can not eat for a long time during the cold season without dying, the eel is generally active in the spring, summer, and fall seasons.