What do eels eat?

While eels prefer to eat live prey, spiny and freshwater eels will eat carrion and will accept frozen bloodworms and tubifex worms as food. Diet by Type Striped peacock eels consume crickets, fish, crustaceans, brine shrimp and plankton, earthworms, mealworms, blood worms, glass worms and tubifex worms. read more

In the wild, eels eat such animals as octopuses and fish. In captivity, though, eels will eat almost any meaty food including: -live fish-shrimp-squid. read more

Eels do not eat very often. Usually they will eat every few days. They prefer to hunt and gather their food at night. Fresh water eels are bottom feeders. They will eat small creatures at the bottom of the aquarium such as mosquito larvae and worms. A few types of eel will adapt to eat frozen fish food such as blood worms and tubifex. read more