Please help id eel

[Synanceia]

Anyone able to id this eel, please help. Thanks

Picture is not well taken, but the best out of 6 attempts. It moves too fast for a nice shot, and its head end won't stay still for a close-up.

[Star Polyps]

It could be a Muraena melanotis or Myrichthys acuminatus.

[Synanceia]

It could be a Muraena melanotis or Myrichthys acuminatus.

I searched Fishbase, but doesn't seem to be either. It is definitely not a moray (not characteristic of morays, and behaves more like burrowing garden eels. Anyway, pattern is dissimilar to Muraena melanotis ). Not seem to be Myrichthys acuminatus either cos it has black spots and not pale spots. Also head pattern is different.

Many thanks though for the suggestions.

[Rhinopias]

I want to see it's face na. What I'm thinking now is it might be Myrichthys maculosus

[Synanceia]

I want to see it's face na. What I'm thinking now is it might be Myrichthys maculosus

You are absolutely right. The following website has good pictures of it (without a clear view of the facfe!) and a good description:

http://www.austmus.gov.au/fishes/fishfacts.../mmaculosus.htm

Or Fishbase:

http://www.fishbase.org/Summary/SpeciesSum...sname=maculosus

Thanks lots.

[Star Polyps]

Then it should be a Tiger Snake Eel(Myrichthys maculosus)

[angry]

Anyone able to id this eel, please help. Thanks

Picture is not well taken, but the best out of 6 attempts. It moves too fast for a nice shot, and its head end won't stay still for a close-up.

its a hell nive eel! where d ya get it from bro? does it burrow into the sandbed?

[Synanceia]

That is the eel I told bro acidjazz about - the one I couldn't id and have not seen another one for sale for a long time (someone correct me if I'm wrong). It burrows into the substrate (mine is coral chip) and emerges when it senses food or there is commotion among the fishes.