try again on the eel pics

Thusly Marco Schwarz Spake Unto All:

What an eel! It must have studied interior design and sport
at the GSU (Gulf Stream University). :-)

I wouldn't put it past it. It was an interesting animal, to be sure. I
caught it with rod & line, and as it was too small to eat I put it in
a bucket to take home to my aquarium. When I got home it had bled so
profusely in the bucket that the water was pink, and I was sure it
wouldn't survive. Well, it started eating the other fish that same
night. I became more and more impressed by the things it'd eat
_anything_, so on a bet with my brother I tried with a thick slice of
salami (yes, really!), and sure enough, in the morning the slice was
gone.

It was the rearranging of the rocks which made me get rid of it -
hearing it burrow under big rocks at night and tip them over made me
nervous that it might crack a pane of the aquarium.

So I released it again. That's another advantage of local species.

Possibly a buddy for my pond mussels?

Why not. I don't think it'll eat mussels.