Their fierce look, their snakelike elongated body and their general oddball attitude lure many fish keepers into buying them. But freshwater moray eels are not really what their common name pretends they are. Put into the standard community tanks they sometimes start to reduce the stocking, but in most cases simply starve or die due to various diseases. That's pretty sad, because under the right conditions and with appropriate care they can be wonderful fish living for more than ten years.