The growth cycle of yellow eels is 6 months.

Yellow eels should be stocked in April, May, or August to September to avoid the sexually mature breeding period from mid-May to July. The most suitable temperature for eels is 24 to 28 degrees Celsius.

Feeding should be timed, eels day and night, feeding at 6 to 8 pm is appropriate. The feed should be fresh, not put rotting and moldy feed. Feed should be washed before placing, each cubic body of water and then 3 to 5 grams of salt immersion 10 ~ 20 minutes, and then rinse with water before feeding.

Artificial feeding, due to feeding a large number of feed, eels exclude feces easily contaminated water, so it is necessary to frequently refill the new water to keep the water quality fresh. The water should be changed once every 7 to 10 days in spring and once every 3 to 5 days in summer.

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Life Habits

The eel is a tropical and warm-temperate fish, and a benthic fish that is adaptable to survive in rivers, lakes, ditches, and rice paddies. During the day, it likes to burrow in the humus silt or burrow in the watery rock crevices of the embankment.

Little activity during the day, night out of the cave for food. 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 is very poor in oxygen, 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 to a variety of small animals for food omnivorous fish, sex greedy, summer feeding is the most exuberant, the cold season can be a long time without food, but not to death.