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Every year a local pond that goes into a lake (the pond is is near brackish water docks) is infested with tiny young migrating eels, which I later found out were young american eels. They amused me as I knew little about them.
Ok, so they settle into the lake and mature, but i've seen medium sized eels that are fairly slender, and silver in color in the lake also being sold for fish bait nearby (in salt water), they look like this, but instead of olive green on top they are a grayish-silver. http://www.dcnature.com/photosmid/American eel750.jpg
Do these eels sometimes show up more silver than usual and how are they living in salt water in the bait shop if they at that life stage are supposed to be freshwater?
My last question, for people keeping them as pets, when they are breeding age, and never released, do they die if they never get to be in salt water? Or do they remain the same as freshwater forms and never change?
Ok, so they settle into the lake and mature, but i've seen medium sized eels that are fairly slender, and silver in color in the lake also being sold for fish bait nearby (in salt water), they look like this, but instead of olive green on top they are a grayish-silver. http://www.dcnature.com/photosmid/American eel750.jpg
Do these eels sometimes show up more silver than usual and how are they living in salt water in the bait shop if they at that life stage are supposed to be freshwater?
My last question, for people keeping them as pets, when they are breeding age, and never released, do they die if they never get to be in salt water? Or do they remain the same as freshwater forms and never change?