Green+Morey+Eel

media type="custom" key="5596613" The green morey eel usually averages up to six feet long and about thirty pounds.The color is yellow mucus that looks green. This eel has long rows of sharp teeth. This type of morey eel is found at the Caribbean Reef and around reefs in the Atlantic and Pacific Ocean as long as it is under 30 m. of water. They eat crabs, shrimp, octopus, and small fish and squid. Anything bigger than it eats it and even sometimes sharks. Some other facts about the green morey eel is that it hunts at night, the largest green morey eel ever recorded was 10 feet long, it has conspicuous tube-like nostrils to find its prey, the mouth acts like a pump so it can force water over its gills, they are green because of its yellowish colored mucus. They can be found at the Shedd Aquarium at the Caribbean Reef exhibit and he usually hides behind rocks so look closely. wriiten by: Grace Murphy