The feeds that eels like to eat are earthworms, silkworm pupae, fly maggots, snails, mussels and small fish and shrimp.

The eel is an omnivorous fish that eats animal food, and under natural conditions, it mainly eats small fish, shrimp, snails, insects and other things. Artificial breeding of eels mainly eat earthworms, fly maggots, snails, small fish, shrimp, mussels, animal offal and other compound feed and bran, rice, rice bran, tofu dregs and other fresh feed stuff.

It is best to crush, mix and process animal feed and plant feed into pellets for feeding.Eels feed by slurping and food is swallowed without chewing.When it comes to larger food, eels often bite it by rotating their bodies.When stocking, eel species of the same size and specification should be selected to avoid mixing sizes.

Life habits of eels

The eel prefers to burrow during the daytime in the much humus silt or burrow in the rocky crevices of the embankment where there is water. 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.